Day 22 - Spiritual Exercise ( 25 September 2018 )

Day 22 : Contemplation on the incarnation

In this session, we get lost in the mystery of incarnation. We marvel at how God works through ordinary people like Mary and Joseph.
We are filled with gratitude because God wanted to get close to us by becoming human in Jesus of Nazareth.

Reading

We begin the contemplation by imagining the three Divine Persons gazing on “the whole surface or circuit of the world, full of people” (SE 102).

Consider what the Divine Persons (and you) see and hear: men and women of different sizes, shapes, and colors; rich and poor; old and young. People speaking different languages. Some being born, others dying; some running and playing, others sick and suffering. Some laughing, others crying. Some screaming and shouting, others praying and singing.

With the gaze of the Trinity, consider how people are treating one another: some loving, others hating; some hugging, others hitting; some helping, others ignoring, hurting, and killing. What do you see and hear?

How do you feel as you imagine the world in this way? How do the three Divine Persons respond to the joys and sufferings of the world? How does the God who is Love respond to us, God’s children, who are lost, aimless, suffering, sinning, confused, and hurting?

Hear the Divine Persons saying, “Let us work the redemption of the human race” (SE107).

What words do you want to speak to God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

Reflection

I suddenly remembered the Shack Movie, there's a wisdom that said because of the original sin, we love to take a role as God. We judged people good and bad and when everyone is judging one another  according to different measurement of good and bad, the world will be so chaotic.

Our purpose of life is not judging each other but loving each other.

When I asked God why You sent Jesus on those day, not before that or after or even in this modern day.

Then I was reminded how my mind was like a child's mind. It's very limited to understand God's thinking and wisdom. 

Like my son, he may not understand his father's works and why my father need to do business trips, decision in his workplace but one thing that he's very sure that his father works because he loves his son. He wants to provide the needs of his sons.

Same thing, I couldn't comprehend God's plan, God's way and thinking but one thing that I am very sure everything that God does is for the goodness of His creation.