Life At The Well

I love Jesus! I love everything about Him. I love the way He is depicted in the Gospels. I love the way He is portrayed in (most) films. I love the way I picture Him in my mind.

And I am learning to love Him ... His reality and presence in my life.

Merton once wrote that he could not abandon his life to a Rule or an Order. Contemplation, he wrote, was not a big enough ideal to give his life to. He concludeed that he needed Christ, and His Passion and Resurrection to believe in. I have become very aware that this is the season of my spiritual life -- becoming intentionally aware of and falling in love with, the Person of Jesus Christ.

Lectio divina is opening the door for the Living Word to truly come alive in me.
Times of being alone in silence are awakening in me the abiity to hear and know His voice.
Fasting has allowed me to feast on hidden bread.

I have lived much of my Christian life attached to ideals, but none provide the power and machination to make life abundant ... much less eternal. One by one, the idols of my ideals are toppling in favor of an all-consuming Love, made real and personal in the Person of Jesus. I have decided that I have spoken way too much about Jesus... and loving Him ... and following Him ... and listening to Him.... without really acknowledging His personhood. But that is not (and has not) been enough .. and so I journey on in faith that this Friend I am getting to know better, really is the Son of God, the Savior of the world .... and the Way, Truth and Life.