chasing after meanings in the sparkling Word

[Doug Millison]

"It is, after all, the nature of the Word to reveal what is hidden. 
It opened up and sparkled before me in order to reveal something to 
me, and it informed me about God. *For this reason*, it is called a 
*Word*. It was, however, not known to me *what* is hidden -- such was 
its concealed arrival in whisperings and silence, in order to reveal 
itself. See how, since it is hidden, we must and should pursue it. It 
sparkled and yet was hidden; the purpose is for us to yearn and sigh 
after it. Saint Paul admonishes us to run after it until we perceive 
it, and never to cease until we seize it. When he was snatched up 
into the third heaven into God's gift of knowledge and looked at all 
things, he forgot nothing on his return. It lay, however, so deeply 
in his foundation that his reason could not reach it; it was 
concealed from him. Therefore he had to run after it and reach it 
within himself, not outside himself. It is entirely within, not 
outside -- totally within."
--Meister Eckhart
from a Christmas sermon, as presented in _Breakthrough: Meister 
Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation_ with commentaries 
by Matthew Fox

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