You still don’t know me? John 14:9
To feel comfortable with the incredible presence of God is precisely the challenge that Jesus had when He began his ministry as related to us in the Gospels. The first thing Jesus seems to have done in his preaching career was to call us to repent. This is a word that means not to do penance in the sense of some external practice, but to change the direction in which we are looking for happiness, implying that where we are looking for happiness is not the place where it can be found, and certainly not where God is to be found.
The contemplative dimension of the Gospels is how we get acquainted with the ultimate reality, as it really is, which is “no thing”. Nothing is the sense of nothing particular. No concept. No experience. No feeling. It just is. Is. Is. Is. Through our being, we can start this journey because we all “are.” But the problem is who we think we are is often not the reality of who we really are; we’ve got it, everybody else, and reality wrong.
Have I been with you all this time and you still do not know me?
John 14:9
Thank you, Lord, for showing me my being in order to become and know who You want me to be.
Smitten With Goodness 