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When I was living in the monastery, I remember I was not there long, even with knowing the Nuns for over 40 years, there were times when living at the cutting edge of the daily reality as is with living with anyone other that self and most times, even with self, the little things began to get to me. 

In prayer and in an instant, what came to me was that Jesus lived and walked with the Apostles who were every day people struggling to understand the ways of the Lord and rarely getting it.

Christ lived in our world, in human weakness, and in our human condition while always trying to love us to be more than we are.

Christ did not change the Apostles, did not blame they, did not get mad at them, and did not do anything but love them.

As symbolized in Peter, Christ loved him through the illness with Peter's mother-in-law; the storms at sea; the transfiguration; the washing of the feet; the perdition of the denial; the denial; and final acceptance at the empty Tomb.

Christ was/is about transforming Peter, us, and our world into love by entering our very humanness, our messes, our wars, our conflicts, our pain, and our joy.  Is this not what we are about as contemplatives?

If only we can see Christ in us, walking with us, living with us, and being us...as Paul, it is not I who lives but Christ who lives in me.....in you!

Christ walks today in us, at home and in other lands, in the well and the sick, in these terrorizing and terrorized.

Like Ignatius says: Day by Day to see Thee more clearly and to love Thee more dearly.....

This is the passion that Paul of the Cross talks about - uniting our Passion in and with Christ's Passion or rather Christ is in and with our Passion in the day by day inch by inch living of every day living at the cutting edge.....