Reflection 407

Welcome!

God is your deepest self

(This kind of prayer) means that God is inviting me to discover Him no longer as another alongside me but as my own deepest and truest self. It is, we believe, our final vocation and destiny that the splendour of God in us should resplendently say I am. But the first steps towards that state of identity feel very far from splendid. Our experience of identity with God is the very reverse of what could be described as an emotional experience. It has about it no compelling grandeur which sweeps us off our feet. Around that dim and dull awareness of our identity with God we begin gradually and instinctively to centre and selve the rest of what we are. That centring and selving takes the whole of our life here on earth and no doubt extends beyond the grave. But the important thing is for it to begin.  H.A. Williams