The Us Matter
Jesus sometimes found himself stopped by a quick memory. A snippet. A sort of itch. A disturbance in what might have seemed settled.
Just when Abba had seemed to lock the door on anything but knowing yourself, he hit Jesus with US!
Us as in him and Abba.
Now he knew that there was oneness with Abba and what that meant, sort of.
It certainly meant a closeness developed over time. It made him more one with Abba in his sense of things.
Oh dear!
What did this mean in terms of Jesus and others? That us seemed to make no sense.
Was Abba just talking one-to-one?
Jesus made his way to the usual spot. He covered his eyes against the sun. He spoke.
“Abba, what does us mean? In terms of other persons? Is us just you and me?”
“No, Jesus. It isn’t just between us.”
“I understand that, I think. But How does I and us work? Isn’t we something unreal? Families, armies, nations? Remember yesterday?”
“Everything is real, Jesus. Everything in your life is we. Everything is us. Always. You are always aware of us. Us means others. Near and far. At your first breath. As soon as you can cry out.”
“That’s confusing.”
“There needs to be better communication. That’s why we keep at this.”
“More people need to cry out for you. For guidance.”
“More people need to see what us really means.”
“What does it mean?”
Abba coughed.
“Us is primarily you and me, Jesus. As I said. But. Ideally you and me is a replica of what every relationship on earth can be. Everyone needs to know goodness resides in them. It has a name. A reality. Call it Abba. Call it nothing. Call it another name. Goodness. Truth. Mercy. Repentance. Justice. Real. Universal. In all.”
“Us is everyone.”
“Us is everyone. Yes. When you see it as less you get into trouble. But, Jesus,no one is anyone until they contact good in themselves. Until they do what you did. What does the prayer I taught you say?”
“Forgive us.”
“Precisely,” Abba said emphatically.
“Us. Us. Us.”
“Us is all. You and everyone else. That’s the point. You are in touch with me, There is always me. There is always. Anyone else makes three. All make infinity.”
Jesus got the message.
It made him glad there was time to learn more.
He would work to make a message everyone would sing. He would work to see truth penetrate. Us was nothing if not all.
That’s huge, he thought.
And without Abba there was nothing and no one.
That was seismic.
