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A young girl, holding her father by his hands,
was walking down a narrow path. She was so enreptured looking at a plane flying
overhead. Her father questioned her: "Why are you looking so puzzled, my
child?" The girl looked at her father and answered: "Papa, you know, I
always question myself how it is possible for those people to climb up there in
order to board the plane!" "Oh!" answered her father, "It is
the plane that comes down, thus enabling the people to board it without any
trouble at all." We are very close to celebrate Christmas. at this time of the year, especially for us sdc Members, it is more than obvious to meditate, pray and contemplate about this Mystery of God Incarnate. To a very limited extent, the story of the young girl helps us to understand of what God's the Transcendent One, chose to'come down' from heaven and dwell among us in order to enable us to get the most clear image of who He is. This Mystery of the Incarnation is rejected by Muslims who regard God's Immanence in His Incarnation as something blasphemous. Even if you mention it to any of your intimate Muslim friends, they spontaneously say: yastur Allah - may God hide (annihilate) what you have just pronounced. Yet for us this is the crux of our belief and the reason behind our self-giving to God Almighty. In front of the enormity of this mystery, how are we to proceed at least to contemplate and value this act of God's generosity? Definitely it is not through our rational and many-a-times complex reasoning but though love. Let me borrow a paragraph from the Book entitled: The Cloud of Unknowing to try to answer my question. "God created us in his image and likeness, making us like himself, and in the Incarnation he emptied himself of his divinity becoming a man like us. It is God, and he alone, who can fully satisfy the hunger and longing of our spirit which transformed by his redeeming grace is enabled to embrace him by love. He whom neither men nor angel can grasp by knowledge can be embraced by love. For the intellect of both men and angels is too small to comprehend God as he is in himself."
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