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      Life is discovering and and practicing the truth. Truth is something that has to be practiced becuase it is something that we cannot grasp in its fullness right away, but over time as we grow, love and discover. Life for God is the fullness of Being. There is no change in God. Because we are finite beings, and we come into a fuller awareness of who we are and who God is and who others are over time, we change. Our life is not complete in itself in this world until death. Life for us is practice and a constant formation by ourselves and being formed by God and others.

    As Catholics, the form for our life and the model which we strive to attain is Jesus Christ. As true God and true man, Jesus used his Body as well as divine personhood to show us the beauty of the Son who is eternally begotten by the Father, yet born in time of the Virgin Mary. His Body and his human nature is the canvas on which we see who he is, not just in his birth and in his death, but ultimately in his glorified and resurrected Body. He is the Poetic Word which contains all other words. He is the melody which resonates in the deepest part of who we are as beings capable of receiving and giving to God.

     As God, Jesus Christ is the truth and he mediates that truth through his human consciousness. He does it through parables, images, and his encounters with his disciples and others. We are not God, but becuase the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, we can also mediate Truth to the extent that we are united with God in the Holy Spirit. In that sense we are the brushes or pencils or notes that God uses. At the same time, because of our free will we can use our own creativity to express this Truth who is Jesus Christ, if we work within certain parameters. Every artist, though free to create, has rules that guide his work, and as Christians, we have rules as well to keep us true to the reality we wish to respect. I will try to describe some of these rules tomorrow.