Where I End and God Begins
Think about a moment when you felt fully alive. Recall how free and natural it was. No pretending to be someone else. No fear of missing out. No regret pulling you back into the past or fear clouding your future. In that moment, you were doing something so fully you, yet somehow beyond you. Who could tell where you ended and God began?
When Jesus says, “The Father is in me and I am in the Father,” he is speaking about his life, a life fully alive, fully united to the Father. When he cites the psalms saying, “You are Gods” he tells us that this experience is available to everyone. Yet sometimes we pick up stones to kill off what threatens our control, our narrow way of seeing the world. If we wonder why moments of being fully alive feel so few, perhaps it is because we are carrying stones. The best way to drop those stones is to have our hands engaged in a life that is fully alive.
Today in prayer, ask God to fill your hands with gratitude for those experiences where it is hard to tell where you end and God begins.
—Fr. Cyril Pinchak, SJ (JesuitPrayer.org)