Two Lies

This is our receptivity. The whole function of the vessel is simply to receive. Once filled with His Spirit, we become one with our risen Lord. We are now part of Him; yet as a vessel of His mercy, we also remain ourselves: unique and individual. Two in one; one in two. We see the paradox in the vine and the branch illustration because, though the vine and the branch make one, Jesus says that the branch must “abide in the vine.” Though the vine is the life and the branch the channel, yet the branch is not inactive. It receives the nourishment to produce leaf and flower and fruit.

But its activity is secondary to its receptivity.

Once we have come to understand that our basic function is a constant reception of Another, the whole of life is transformed.