We can’t think our way into relationship with God. It’s only through living the mystery can we know God. The Gospel tells us when the Spirit comes, he will guide us into all truth.
If true knowledge of God depends upon immersion in the Holy Spirit, then that knowledge is a function of an entire form of life, involving prayer, self-denial, the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, and the forgiveness of one’s enemies. We don’t think our way to an understanding of God so much as we live our way to it.
Rumi states that our hearts know the way, we just need to run in that direction. Our hearts are restless until we rest in God. This is when we fall upwards towards the mystery of knowing and not knowing but knowing Gods profound presence. This is living the mystery with God.
Thomas Aquinas always said that he owed his theology far more to the persistence of his prayer than to the acuity of his mind. His penetration of the divine mystery flowed from his life in the Holy Spirit. And so today we pray, “Come, Holy Spirit, come!”
Smitten With Goodness 