Exhaling

“The meaning of stability: God is not elsewhere.God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.”

And during these weeks we sing praise to a God Who is so near and Who draws even nearer by becoming one of us, one like us in all things but sin. We contemplate the mystery of God made man so that man can become one with God.

Let us not hesitate to sit at the Virgin’s knee and look into the clear eyes of innocence in her sheltering arms: an infant, with the pure eyes of Wisdom, looking on us with unearthly love. And this innocence and purity never fades, even as the child grows to a man. Even as He grew to know hardship and opposition, those eyes remained as clear and innocent as a child’s, disarming any fear in all those who had become as little children before God.