Eureka! Jesus is the answer

One day, while speaking with a friend, I remember telling him how often my heart longs to be in the Adoration Chapel before our Lord. It is as though an immense magnet draws me with irresistible force, pulling me ever closer until I long to disappear into the infinite mystery of His presence. There, in the silence before the Blessed Sacrament, I find a peace the world can neither give nor understand.

My thirteen-year-old son often talks to me about black holes, stars, supernovas, and the countless wonders of the universe. Listening to him, I cannot help but marvel at the beauty of creation. I find myself wondering what it must have been like when there was nothing, and yet the Spirit of God hovered over the void. Like every human being, my mind fills with endless questions born from curiosity. I try, with the limitations of my own intellect, to grasp the mystery of the eternal God, to understand the One who existed before time itself.

Faith gently reminds me that God has always existed. He simply is. No measure of time can explain His existence because He is outside of time. He is the Eternal One. As He revealed Himself to Moses, "I AM WHO AM" (Exodus 3:14). In those divine words, God unveiled not only His name but also His eternal nature to the human heart.

Although questions sometimes arise within me, I do not question the truth. God is eternal, without beginning and without end. He simply is. That should be enough for me, shouldn't it? Yet I have noticed that these questions often surface during seasons of trial, when my heart is tempted to forget that apart from Him there is no life, no purpose, and no reason for our existence.

The restless heart struggles to surrender completely to the greatness of God's power. But whenever I find myself sitting silently before the Holy Eucharist, something remarkable happens. Without words, the answer is already there. I realize that perhaps my heart is not searching for explanations as much as it is searching for communion. Before I can even form the question, Christ Himself is already the answer.

He is.

"I AM WHO AM."

How comforting it is to know that the answer to every longing of the human heart is not merely an idea, but a Person.

Thanks be to God for allowing such a naïve sinner as myself to glimpse even a small part of His infinite mystery. Jesus often speaks most clearly when we finally stop speaking ourselves. In the sacred silence, He gives clarity to our thoughts, peace to our minds, and rest to souls that have grown weary from life's battles.

God knows how fragile we are. He knows how easily we lose our direction while searching for Him. Yet in His infinite mercy, He never stops calling us back. He waits patiently in the Eucharist, drawing us gently toward Himself, not to answer every question of the mind, but to satisfy the deepest longing of the heart with His presence.

May we never be afraid to enter that silence, for it is there, before our Eucharistic Lord, that we discover we were never truly searching for answers. We were searching for Him.

God bless you always.