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John
17:20-23
‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of
those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one.
As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that
the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given
me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them
and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know
that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Beyond
belief
Sometimes I don’t believe in God. I don’t need to.
When I feel rapt in Love there is no believing, only knowing.
Believing is directed toward something separate, apart
from who you are. Knowing is oneness, experiencing
unity with something or someone … so that something of what they are is in you.
The Loving Mystery draws us beyond belief, beyond imagining
a God, a Being, a Someone out there. The Mystery who is Love embraces us in
moments of life, igniting the flame of Love, giving us a heart-to-heart knowing
of Love Itself.
Moments of such knowing come and pass, but what they
teach endures. We come to know Love is not a thing to be believed but a Heart we
know in our hearts.
Having known this Heart, we crave more moments of
knowing, the ecstasy of oneness that comes in a thousand ways, the light of a
sunset, clouds on the wings of the wind, a flower, a scent, a smile, a tear.
Unity in Love is the glory which Jesus shared with the
Father, and it is this for which he prayed for those who follow him.
I don’t think I will ever understand exactly how the experience of oneness with Love
happens to us. I know only that it is this for which we are born. It is this
that the Loving Mystery wants for us. This One, this Love who is God, desires
us, even as we know the fulfillment of our desire in the Love Who Is revealed
in Jesus and who chooses to speak to us … in everything.
Pr.
David L. Miller
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