Adventure

"Whenever we come together to listen to the Word of God, what we are seeking at bottom is not mental information or moral instruction or even a sentimental influence that will make us "feel" the presence and goodness of God.  What we seek with all our soul, rather, is the possibility of opening ourselves up in prayer to God's transforming action.  Whether we are fully conscious of it or not, in other words, we desire a change of life, a conversion from what we presently are to a more precise embodiment of the likeness of Christ at the center of our being, radiating our from us through all our thoughts, words, and actions.  This is why the life of contemplation is the boldest and most adventuresome of undertakings, for what could be more radical, more truly earth-shattering, than the willingness to be dismantled and created anew, not once or twice in a lifetime, but day after day?  'If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation' (2 Corinthians 5:17)."
 -Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, The Way of the Disciple, pg 18

HAPPY EASTER!!  He is risen!  Alleluia!