“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” With these words, we learn Jesus has lost everything, even God. In his cry, he experiences the absence of God. For Jesus, and those in his culture, God was seen at the foundation, the bedrock of all things. To lose God then means to lose everything. We are confronted with this troubling truth not on the fringes of our faith, but smack in the midst of the most central event. That doubt, crying out - even an atheism from experience - is a part of our Christian Tradition.
If we are called to participate in the death of Christ, then we are invited into this reality as well. But we resist, for to do so would be to give up our explanations, our security and how we make sense of our world. “It is the incoming of that which cannot be contained in our various mythologies, that which ruptures them all and calls them into question” (Insurrection, p 23). And it is in this place, in these moments that we find ourselves with Christ. We discover all that we held to tell us who God is … are not God. In losing them, we find the Divine. Perhaps this is what Meister Eckhart meant when he wrote: “God rid me of God.”
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April 21 2024: Is This Seat Taken? - Michael Hidalgo
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March 10 2024: What is Truth? - Michael Hidalgo
March 3, 2024: I Have No Idea What You are Talking About - Michael Hidalgo
February 25, 2024: No Jury Needed - Michael Hidalgo
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January 21, 2024: Wake Up! - Hannah Thom
January 14, 2024: The Pain of Reconciliation - Michael Hidalgo
January 7, 2024: It’s Not Going to be Like That - Paula Williams
December 24, 2023 (Christmas Eve): Right Where You Cannot See It - Michael Hidalgo.
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