Traces of Eternal Life
These days we are listening to the Word from St. John. For St. John, Eternal Life is the concrete difference the Christ makes in our lives. John uses the term"eternal life" 18 times in his Gospel. What is eternal life... is it a life at the end of this life? That's how our human mind calculates. But eternal life is life that is timeless, that is a gift that God has already placed within us. We need to grow more and more aware of it.
There are traces of the eternal within us and there are steps to become aware of it: recognising the gift that life is, is the first step, where the Giver has a big role to play!
The second step is to live life the way the Lord wants me: as we reflected just recently that the Father's commandments is eternal life. This consists of living my life to the full. The third step is to be ready to give that life up for the sake of the One who gave that life to me. That is the highest union with life itself: the fullness of eternal life where we realise the Life within us, the Lord within us and say like Jesus, I and the Father are one!