Responding to Christ
Jesus revealed himself to me when I was the age you are now. This changed the trajectory of my life so profoundly that I have no idea where I would be if that hadn’t happened. Dorothy Day, an American Catholic who devoted her life to working on behalf of the poor, once said: “If I have accomplished anything in my life, it’s because I wasn’t embarrassed to talk about God.” I wouldn’t know Jesus if it hadn’t been for friends who told me about him. The Bible says, “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Ps 34:9a). I tasted, and I saw. Another person can describe a sight to you, though that’s not at all the same as seeing it yourself. Describing a taste is next to impossible: not even a master chef knows how the dish tastes until it touches their tongue. No one can see God, but you might say I tasted him through prayer. I tasted him in the form of bread and wine. I smelled “the fragrance of his perfumes” (Song 1:3a) in the sacred chrism on my forehead. I spoke to him in prayer and he s...
