A thought for today from “Christ of the Celts” by J. Philip Newell
It is in a garden that Christ comes to the one who is longing for his presence. At first Mary Magdalene thinks he is the gardener, which in a sense he is. He comes from the Garden of our Origins.
He comes to nurture what is deepest in us, our Genesis in God. But it is only when he calls her name that she recognizes him. There is no such thing as a general sighting of Christ.
He appears in the intimacy of relationship. He comes from deep in the Garden of our Being, where each one of us is called by name.
He comes to reconnect us to the Sacred Root of our bodies and souls and to the Holy Ground of all that has being.