Contemplative practice is our best attempt to allow ourselves to be fully seen and known by God. Therein lies one of the great challenges of contemplative practice, as we are well-conditioned to hide our wounds – the fear, sorrow and incompleteness that are part of human reality. In an objective, clinical sense, most people of faith can readily admit that God is aware of our woundedness, but it is allowing God access to touch and heal these wounds that can, at times, seem like too much to bear. At those times, we must remember that the resurrected Jesus kept his wounds – indeed, it was the reality of the wounded and resurrected Christ that made the immense reality and power of God’s love clear to the first disciples. In Christ, we find wounds, not removed our covered or hidden, but transformed into the very source of Easter life! We speak with joy of being “hidden in the wounds of Christ,” not simply because the wounds are a place of shelter, but a place of rebirth and renewal, more a chrysalis than a mere defending wall. As partakers in Christ’s nature (see 2 Peter 1:4), we have the opportunity for our wounds to be remade in Easter glory as well, provided we allow the Spirit to touch our wounds as those of Jesus were touched. Contemplative practice opens the space foe this transformation.
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