There is a very remarkable depth and thoroughness about everything God does.  There is always much more to it than we can see or understand or appreciate.  This fact does not mean that we must always be half blind about everything, but it does mean that we never reach the end of our search for God and His purpose and His meaning in all that exists, and especially in our own personal life.  St. Paul tells us that all things were not only created for Christ but were created in Him, and Jesus told us that He is the Truth and the Life. . .

Truth and life in the world around us and in its oppressive atmosphere . . . are under severe attack.  There is a vast climate of untruth and a violent attack on life in various ways . . . It is important for us to be on guard against a gradual, unnoticed decline in the brightness of our own faith and our own moral sense and our own appreciation of the goodness of everything God made and of its value. . .

If we are to find and advance in truth and life through all the ups and downs of our own experiences and duties and so on, we have to live in Christ, and He has to live in us.  Without Him, as He said, we can do nothing.  It could also be said that without Him we cannot see anything properly or live rightly at all.  Life on earth can only be lived as God wills, and therefore in truth and full reality, if we live it with Our Lord, in Him and with Him in us...

Our Lord wants to live your life and mine with you and me.  He is much more involved than we realize.  Living for God, living a Catholic life, is not just living our own human life with goodness and virtue under the influence of grace.  It is not just doing right and having the right intention and purity of heart by means of a push from on high.  The grace of God by which we can do good is the grace of Christ, and it is a communication of His mystery to us.

Living in union with Jesus is something much deeper and more wonderful than living a good life and thinking about Him as we do it.  The life He came to give us is His life in ours.  “You will live in Me,” He said, “and I will live in you.” . . .

Whatever faces you during the day, call Our Lord into your living it, and do so with great confidence, not only in His love and readiness to answer your prayer, but do so by virtue of your latest Holy Communion, when you received His life and His whole mystery. . . Ask Him to make apparent in you and your life the truth and life that was in Him when He lived one of the moments in His life precisely in order to live this moment with you when later in history you came into the world. . .

There is a very remarkable depth and thoroughness about everything God does.  And through Jesus Who lives in us and makes us live in Him, we have true life in a most intimate and wonderful way.  We do not call upon Him nearly enough or with nearly enough confidence.  We are invited to live in union with Him, in His love, in His truth, in His life.  He must become the very center of our outlook, our desire, our joy, our everything.  He does invite us to this.