Yesterday morning R. Rohr referred to Chapter 58 of
Showings
by Julian of Norwich. Here Julian talks about God creating us so as never to be separated from her. Julian writes: “…for [God] says: I love you and you love me, and our love will never divide in two” (p 293). Our relationship with God is through, in, and with Christ, more than attachment, an intrinsic part. How do we live in such a Love that can ‘never divide in two’ without Humility?
Yesterday evening Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter, Humility appeared in an antiphon: “The Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, whom [Abba/Amma] will send in my name, will teach you, and remind you of all that I told you, alleluia.” I am intrigued by ‘…whom [Abba/Amma] will send in my name…” The Paraclete is not sent by Christ: The Risen Lord does not use power. Christ submits to a greater source. Christ, in whom we live and die, humbled himself:
“Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he
emptied
himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance,
he humbled himself…” Philippians 2
