The Bridge to More

There is more to this world then we see by eyes of flesh; not all that is real can be touched or tangibly observed. Perhaps this idea has grown a bit stale. Perhaps hearing it earns agreement, but no spark, no click.

The reason why it can't click in the brain is because its a statement that is literally saying, there is more to our reality than what the brain can comprehend! Thoughts come from the senses. We know what is observed, and to a certain extent, we can think abstractly beyond our own observations by synthesizing an accumulated human body of observations that people have had before us.

Yet beyond all sensual observation, there is more. There are things which are mysteries to the mind, and are treasures to man beyond the mind's grasp, in the heart.

It isn't in thinking that we come to this awareness, thinking and thinking and thinking: that gets us so far, but eventually it reaches a reset point, where it ends up running in circles, or coming loose again like a water bottle that you screw tighter and tighter and tighter, until it jumps the groves and becomes completely loose again.

Awareness of the more is in experiencing it. This takes, as it is called, a leap of faith. You can't much experience the more if you doubt there is a more, such doubt closes your self off to the more of our reality.

And the thing about the more is that it is so infinite, there is an eternal ocean of moreness to be experienced; whether we've never experienced more or we've experienced more 1000 times, there is always more to be experienced.

Yet its hard. We like concrete more than air; we feel safer on a highway than in an airplane, though studies tell us it should be the other way around. Likewise, we feel safer following set rules than simply seeking friendship with God, and we prefer trusting in our own good works; where we volunteer, how often, how much we pray, for our salvation than the invisible power of God's love for us though continually scripture tells us it should be the other way around.

Praise God for understanding our struggles to grasp the more beyond what flesh can see. Praise God for entering so tangibly the universe of physicality, of observability, so to build tangible bridges between this universe and the wondrously vast uni-uni-uni-verse of more.

Praise God in the person Jesus, for entering our universe most fully and completely as an utterly complete human being.

And the mystery beyond our mind's comprehension; the glorious ascension and glorification of that body, wherewith the father has called all mankind to union in that body.

And praise God once more, for making flesh the means into that body; for miraculously transforming bread into Jesus's body, that those called by God (all of us) might eat that bread and thus through means of our universe transcend this universe into the More, into the body of Christ.

The Body of Christ...another mystery, an invisible, transcendent union of souls in the More beyond this universe.

Praise God once more! For this union is hard to grasp, and so he has established the Church, a manifestation of this grand invisible union which is very real, very tangible, in our physical world.

But even the act of the Eucharist, Christ's established physical bridge to union with him, is hard to grasp. How can this bread be made into Jesus's body?

The answer is that God enacts this transubstantiation, for our good of course. But God's invisible. How hard to grasp! But praise God, for appointing Priests and Bishops on earth to be given the great charge to bring forth this miracle for us to see enacted tangibly before us, to be able to witness through the priests outstretched hands the bread become so, so much more.

In the Church, through Communion, all men are made one with Christ and all saints and angels in this union. Where one of us suffers, we all suffer. And we can suffer for each other in this union; where one of us fasts, someone suffering persecution in Iraq can be relieved that suffering which we for them endure.

This leads into the next mystery. How can we say that God has called all men into the Son's body? Wouldn't such be to invite all men into the divine family of the Trinity? There are some pretty lousy people in this world; surely the Father doesn't want all of them for sons.

Yes, he does. Every single sinner, from Osama Bin Laden to Vladmir Putin, to you, to Koney, to me, to Adolf Hitler.

But...but...membership in the Divine Family, the More of all Mores, the King of Kings!!! How can all these sinners...uh, including me, I guess, be allowed to enter into this utter joy? They...uh, we...don't deserve it.

Exactly. We all deserve to die. None of us deserve eternal life, especially eternal life as a member of the Divine Family, the Trinity.

We all deserve to die??? No, that's not enough. Looking at those sinners listed...uh, me included, we deserve to be whipped, beaten, ridiculed, kicked, humiliated...and more.

Yes. You might say we deserve to have a crown of thorns thrust on our head and be crucified, too. Jesus knew that the Father would call all the world, gentiles and Jews, into his body. So in advance, he took upon his body the grueling, excruciating punishment which we all individually deserve, so that once we each personally entered into him, the Father would see us organically in him, and see his wounds as punishment for our personal sins.

In this way, Jesus personally saves each of us by his death on that cross.

Our life is in union with God through Christ. Praise God for building us this Bridge.

Through Christ, and through sweet Communion, do we find the More which we all seek amidst our mundane lives.