Reflection

We know God is transcendent unknowable, always beyond us. In truth we can only say God is a Devine mystery.

But this transcendent God is also the God who comes near us. Very near us. In many surprising ways, but most profoundly we know him because we know Jesus, who is the face of God for us.

I am a bookish person. I love ideas and words. I have read many beautiful ideas and words to describe God, our relationship to him. Beautiful words about faith and hope, love and kindness.

But, it is only through people that I experienced of the love of God.  It is only through the personal that I find the transcendent.

It is through the action of people that I come to experience what Jesus was all about, even who he is.  And it is in people that I often find the Holy Spirit at work.

I find (not because I am holy, but because I am not) the transcendent in the ordinary. I have no option. God comes to us the only way we can get it - as personal, using others to touch us, using who we, were we are to be his hands to reach out to others.

For me an encounter with Jesus often comes from an encounter with a person.

Sure God can do all things, part seas, move mountains, cure the blind and rise the dead, but is often the small things that move the heart.

Remember, in Acts it simply says – He went about doing good.

A small act of kindness, simply generosity and humble goodness, goes a long way to heal, to comfort - even convert. Not big words or big ideas but small acts.

This has been my experience in my life and in my faith journey, of course, they are one in the same.

I see this in Cursillo, where the love of God is palatable to the touch and the work of the Spirit is made joyfully concrete in the love of those who serve and those being served.

God is transcendent but little acts of kindness matter to him.

Little acts of love that changes lives. How many lives have you changed? More than you image!

Little acts of kindness, generosity and forgiveness every day – these make a difference, these changes lives, and it prepares the way for God's Kingdom, which is already here, but yet full-filled.

 Our response to God's unimaginable and eternal gracious love for all of us,

is simply doing the small things (in the Spirit and with a good heart) for others.

There is no better place, no better time, no more important task, no greater sacrifice, nothing more worthy then one good act for one person relentlessly building up the kingdom one brick, one heart at a time.