Daniel Berrigan once said: “Don’t travel with anyone who expects you to be interesting all the time!”
Ron Rolheiser, OMI
IN OUR FULL HUMANITY
We are, after all, human beings, not angels. What’s needed to give us guidance for the spiritual journey is precisely anthropology, not angelology or some over-idealized, overly spiritualized, or overly romantic notion of humanity.
Unlike angels or overly-idealized human beings we, real flesh and blood critters, get tired, get sick, get bored, get wounded, get over-anxious, fill regularly with sexual tension, and have to worry about our figure and our weight (not to mention debts and car payments). Unlike the angels, we have been asked to move towards God and each other in time and history and through a physical body and a soul that naturally and powerfully gravitate towards security, self- absorption, pleasure, personal achievement, and excitement.
God didn’t make us physical, insert us into a physical universe, and then tell us that the physical is a hindrance to the spiritual. Likewise, God didn’t fill us with powerful, creative energies (energies that precisely often leave us bored in church and restless at the dinner table) and then tell us that it’s wrong to feel so fiercely restless, sexual, ambitious, and distracted.
God didn’t make us incurably social, tell us it’s not good to be alone, and then express disappointment because we would sooner be with our friends than alone in prayer. God didn’t make us with deep physical hungers and then tell us that the enjoyment of earthily pleasure is somehow wrong. God didn’t make us insatiably curious and then demand that we blunt our enthusiasm for knowledge and entertainment. God didn’t give us humour and lightness of spirit and then announce that heaven is going to be drab, grey, and heavy.
God does not make mistakes.
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