You Are

What does God do? I gaze at the consecrated host and nothing I see clamors for my attention. It doesn’t make a sound, and doesn’t mover or change. There are no marketing tricks or flashing lights. Even the size and the matter of the Eucharist is very common place and underwhelming. And yet here is contained the great “I Am”. Here “You Are”…and that is enough. Really more then enough when I stop and ponder. Most things require a hook, a feature, a purpose but You are in fact the very purpose of everything. You are not something among things but THE thing among somethings. You transcend me and everything I see… every thought I can imagine. Spotlights and trumpets cannot add to what You Are. In fact the simplicity of what the physical senses perceive only serves to better contrast and magnify the EVERYTHING You Are.  You are not something to see but everything to behold. Lord let me bask in your presence and that will be enough. You Are the greatest and deepest longing of my heart. 

Just as the soldiers fell back in the garden when you declared to them the words “I Am”, so to I fall back in wonder when you reveal in this bread that “You Are”.  

(thoughts from my Holy Hour in Adoration from a couple weeks ago)

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“For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fulness of life in him” (Col 2:9-10)

“And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples…And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and healed them all.” (Luke 6:17 and 19)