Seeing Christ Everywhere

A deliberate and blind act of faith

All sorts of people jostled together, sitting and strap-hanging—workers of every description going home at the end of the day. Quite suddenly I saw with my mind, but as vividly as a wonderful picture, Christ in them all. But I saw more than that; not only was Christ in every one of them, living in them, dying in them, rejoicing in them, sorrowing in them—but because He was in them, and because they were here, the whole world was here too … all those people who had lived in the past, and all those yet to come.

…Christ is everywhere; in Him every kind of life has a meaning and has an influence on every other kind of life. Realization of our oneness in Christ is the only cure for human loneliness. For me, too, it is the only ultimate meaning of life, the only thing that gives meaning and purpose to every life.

After a few days the “vision” faded. People looked the same again, there was no longer the same shock of insight for me each time I was face to face with another human being. Christ was hidden again; indeed, through the years to come I would have to seek for Him, and usually I would find Him in others—and still more in myself—only through a deliberate and blind act of faith.

~ Caryll Houselander, A Rocking-Horse Catholic

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Dear Friend in Christ,

May the Lord give you peace.

Here’s praying that God will grant every disciple of Jesus the courage, strength and wisdom to exercise “a deliberate and blind act of faith” and see Christ hidden in plain sight.

Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ,

~Br. Rex