Good Attracts Good

Jesus pulling up a struggling Peter

We build back better together. 

We are in this together.

It is not over until we all come out together. 

We leave no one behind.

These are some of the cathch phrases for the present pandemic.  They capture both the truth and a vision.  The pity is to see how the reality does not match the vision. 

"I have but one desire - to be lost in the secret of God's face."  (Thomas Merton) 

What does this mean?  God is mystery.  Let us be lost in the mystery that is ever in our midst, and so much so that we express the mystery through our humanity and our bodiliness.  As we are, so we live out the mystery in physical ways, in ways that truly express the divine.  

As we live with the mystery, thus we build up the good in the world and be the co-creators God ordains us to be.  That is at the core of the mystery.  So good builds upon good and the bad, that we so readily focus upon, is diminished.  This is God's doing and choice through us.  

A God reality is so often identified by many as being unreal because this world is not a place for such things as living ideals of love and justice..  Faith tells us oherwise.  Despite all that goes wrong in our world, the perceived unreal within the world's reality becomes real through good building upon good, through our acts of kindness, through human love lived and shared.  

So we enter the unreal, the new era that Pope Francis points us to within a post-pandemic world.