Maybe because we tend to be more spiritual when we are struggling, when we don’t have what we want. It is a fact that the early Christians were much more fervent when they underwent persecution than they were after Christianity became an acceptable and even fashionable religion.
When we struggle, we tend to think more of God, to yearn more for the fullness of our faith, to believe a bit more ardently. Perhaps our belief in being “whole” here and now is a fallacy. Perhaps our awareness of our need for healing, of our woundedness, would keep us always turned toward God. Perhaps desiring fullness of faith here and now keeps us from the search that brings us ever closer to the Divine Presence.
All the way to heaven is heaven, says St. Catherine of Siena. That way is heaven only when it is filled with the desire for the Divine. Jesus goes away, but he sends his Spirit to teach us all things. Have we found that spirit within our heart?
Maurice Zundel says, We must necessarily go through God to become aware of the greatness of the life each one bears not only in his mind but in his heart. Each one of us bears the life and presence of Jesus Christ…Of that we want to remember one thing alone: there is a Face, a Face within ourselves, engraved in our heart and which is our treasure. It is on this Face that our life must converge.
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