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"Jesus in the hand" (to live and act like Jesus)

This last step of identification with Jesus is the most important and definitive. It amounts to transforming life according to the image of Jesus. It presupposes a process of interior conversation from an "I-closed-within," oriented toward the absolutizing and idolatrizing of possession, pleasure, and power (an anti-gospel), to the "I-open" or available, oriented toward Jesus and our neighbor.

"Jesus in the hand" means, in other words, to live like Jesus and to love like Jesus; this reality must be achieved in daily living, in practice, in the here and now, and with strangers as well as with the closest acquaintances.

Suggestions      

1. Saints, canonized or not, are the best qualified witnesses to Jesus, those who have managed to bring to completion this identification with him. Read a good biography which will  help you to incorporate into your own life some of the Christian attitudes the saint manifests.
2. This month I commit myself to accomplishing a certain evangelical gesture or action which I have been contemplating doing: ask pardon or draw closer to a certain person, visit a sick person I have avoided, or animate a community which has just been formed.
3. By means of this journey, we take on the being of Jesus Christ. The Christian is his, bears his name, is part of his family, is his property, acts in his name, works for him. Nothing and nobody separates us from him. The strength we have comes from Christ and unites us to all other believers. How can I show forth this being of Jesus Christ? Do I live in the certainty that all I have is his, and all he has in mine?

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