When I was a kid, my brother loved to tease me. It was easy for him because he was 8 years older. Now, don’t get me wrong, my brother loved me fiercely, but he teased me. One of those was, “you have a face only a mother could love”! That was so mean but it was my brother, a teenager at the time.
Let’s consider that idea though, “a face only a mother could love”. This presumably mean statement is actually a statement of how we all are, we need to put a face to things. Have you not had conversations with people and said, I just can’t place his/her face. Or you meet someone and say, now I have a face to put with your name. One of the great enhancements to the internet and to online education has been the addition to video, so we can put a face with a voice.
I read recently that this is the reason God came to earth as a person named Jesus. The Divine knew that we were having trouble putting the name of God with the face of God. So, in the darkest time of our
The living God among us, Jesus, put aside every ounce of divinity to give us a face of God we could love. But friends it does not stop there because once we have met God, we are the new face of God to the world. Think of what this means: are we living a life that gives the world a glimpse of God? And, do we see the human face of God in every person we see? We should, because we are called to see the world as our loving God sees it, “and it is good”.
TMM