March 21, 2021: God, Where Are You? - Michael Hidalgo

“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” With these words, we learn Jesus has lost everything, even God. In his cry, he experiences the absence of God. For Jesus, and those in his culture, God was seen at the foundation, the bedrock of all things. To lose God then means to lose everything. We are confronted with this troubling truth not on the fringes of our faith, but smack in the midst of the most central event. That doubt, crying out - even an atheism from experience - is a part of our Christian Tradition. 

If we are called to participate in the death of Christ, then we are invited into this reality as well. But we resist, for to do so would be to give up our explanations, our security and how we make sense of our world. “It is the incoming of that which cannot be contained in our various mythologies, that which ruptures them all and calls them into question” (Insurrection, p 23). And it is in this place, in these moments that we find ourselves with Christ. We discover all that we held to tell us who God is … are not God. In losing them, we find the Divine. Perhaps this is what Meister Eckhart meant when he wrote: “God rid me of God.”