Mystery

I finished reading Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller this morning. This stood out to me..

I think the most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus. Sometimes when I go forward at church to take Communion, to take the bread and dip it in the wine, the thought of Jesus comes to me, the red of His blood or the smell of His humanity, and I eat the bread and I wonder at the mystery of what I am doing, that somehow I am one with Christ, that I get my very life from Him, my spiritual life comes from Him working inside me, being inside me.

This is what I strive for. I don't think I'm there. Sometimes I feel that I haven't fully fallen in love with Jesus, but maybe thats because I haven't fully accepted His love for me. I think that the mystery of Christ in me is amazing and I long to experience it and to live it on a constant basis. Maybe, well I'm almost sure of this...the way to fall in love with Jesus is to see Him in others, meaning not being so self absorbed...which I am pretty much all of the time.
So anyway, I've just been thinking today about what it would be like to live with Christ as the very thing that makes me alive...not food, clothes, sleep, or anything...but Christ. And being in tuned with Him so that daily I am changed and shaped and made alive!