March 2, 2026
Divesting Power
The radical, divine choice is the choice to reveal glory, beauty, truth, peace, joy, and, most of all, love in and through the complete divestment of power. It is very hard – if not impossible – for us to grasp this divine mystery. We keep praying to the “almighty and powerful God.” But all might and power is absent from the one who reveals God to us saying: “When you see me you see the Father.” If we truly want to love God, we have to look at the man of Nazareth, whose life was wrapped in weakness. And his weakness opens for us the way to the heart of God.
“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
- John 1: 46
Reflection Question: When I pray to an “almighty and powerful God,” how might my image of God be gently reshaped by contemplating Jesus’ fragile, ordinary, and vulnerable life?
