I read an inspiring reflection today on seeing Jesus in our lives (http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/100612.html). Of  late, I have not been one to slip into the Jesus as my personal savior stream. I am more inclined toward, “Jesus then. Christ now.” The Cosmic Christ is a power in the cosmos working toward good.

The risen Christ takes on a cosmic dimension which I am coming to embrace more and more as I read Matt Fox’s Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for our Times. [Hildegard now joins Catherine of Sienna and the two T[h]eresas as a doctor in the church.] The cosmic includes the personal but takes us far beyond the personal as Holy Wisdom connects us with creation and the cosmos. Wisdom is the goddess at work before the dawn of creation. Eventually we came to understand that the Holy Spirit, hovering over the primordial foam, is the Wisdom of the Godhead. Continue reading →