A Wanted Man
A city at his feet. For love or for hate, he is a wanted man, the wanted man. But he does not stop. He knows no home that is not the roadside: the roads where men live and walk. Other villages, other towns and groups gather at the door, but he does not stop. He does not have a final destination in mind, only stops along the way. Many sick people with numerous diseases are cured just by a touch of his hand, demons screaming bloody murder flee at the movement of his hand or at the sound of his voice. No word such as his was ever heard, no authority such as his ever seen, no grace such as his ever imagined. Everyone is looking for him but Jesus the Teacher stops nowhere because he wants to reach every corner.
But there is, in the midst of this loving pressure and powerful dedication, a home, even in the absence of a home, a stop, even in the absence of a final destination. A piece of the night melting into dawn when the light shapes forms is when/where he lives prayer, in silent love in the song of his heart in the heart of the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Just as a caress given without love is irritating to the skin, the trip towards mankind without love is nauseating religious colonization. Jesus travels out of love, inside of love, inside of joy, in love with us, with the Father and the Holy Paraclete. The Lord and Teacher has come to announce and to save; that is his mission. No step is taken, no gesture is made, no word proclaimed, or look given without love and dedication. Someone who loves, someone who is in love cannot, literally, do anything else but make time for love with the loved one.
There is time to travel, to cross villages and towns, to meet beloved men and women; there is time to heal them inside and out, to enlighten them, to save them but time for intimate love in the Trinity cannot be lacking. It is by loving in prayer that love walks, that life moves in equilibrium and with joyous power.
Without the time and the space for meditation, for prayer, for love towards and in the Trinity everything quickly becomes an annoying, useless daily effort. If love does not circulate in our veins, we can survive but we cannot live fully. It is a question of energy and of membership.
Nothing can give us more energy than spending time praying with love. The time and the space spent in this intimate relationship create and keep our belongingness to ourselves, to God and to the universe.
Everyone is looking for you, and Jesus responds with dedication to the road, with compassion for the people, immersed in the dust of the beaten path and of the non beaten paths of human history inside life's wounds and desire for life and resurrection in the heart of each person who turns to him. He responds to all who are looking immersed in prayerful, loving silence in the intimate Trinity of God's heart.