Sight

I first heard of Teilhard de Chardin at a Gonzaga commencement, and I included the quote I heard then earlier in this blog and in 40: Reflections for Lent. And then I didn't think of him for some time. That is, until I was listening to a book on tape: Brennan Manning's The Ragamuffin Gospel.

Manning referred to TdC's The Divine Milieu, so I picked it up. It's going to be a tough read, but one part was very easy to understand and ever so true:

"We listen to St. Paul telling the Areopagites of 'God, who made man that he might seek him -- God whom we try to apprehend by the groping of our lives -- that self-same God is as pervasive and perceptible as the atmosphere in which we are bathed. He encompasses us on all sides, like the world itself. So what prevents you, then, from enfolding him in your arms?"

"Only one thing: your inability to see him."

TdC then spends the rest of The Divine Milieu opening up that truth.