loved like a human. How was it possible that He was God Himself? This is the key to understanding the mystery of Jesus: “How is it possible that He’s a man like us, and also God at the same time?” And yet, it’s quite simple: unlike all the others living in oblivion, Jesus knew that He was God! He realised and experienced deeply without any doubt that now He was indeed a man, but it would not take long before He would be back again in perfect unity with His Father – the eternal author, the director, as well as the actor in God’s drama. 11 Follow me In the beginning, we stated that the actuality and impressiveness of God’s drama are enabled by the actors not knowing that God is present covertly in each of them. All the protagonists are, ergo, lost in their own world, forgotten in their own play. But what happens if one of them is fed up with it? What if, in desperation, one of them dials the emergency line to God one day to hear His words: “Hello! Answer me! Who are you really – not the one who you are playing? Where are you calling me from? How far have you got?” However, that’s either simply what no one hears, or is unable to answer. How far has one got in one’s own role? Was the role always so strictly assigned? And if, at least for a moment, one ventures off course, who would one really be? Or quite simply: What would have happened if you had not been afraid to ask the basic question “Who am I?”, and to follow this idea as far as you possibly could? The first thing that would have pulled us up short is that we are unsure about the definiteness and changelessness of our roles. First of all, of those social roles: I am a father and have two children… I am a medical student with only two semesters to go… This is true, but could it not be different? Even then, we would feel exactly the same as before! By keeping a distance from one’s role at least for a moment, one is able to look around and stop being lost. “Then who am I really? Is there actually something like a fixed point?” That is already the first success. And now let us try to attack the life role as well: “Would it do me any harm if I managed to empathise fully with someone else? If I, figuratively speaking, swapped or exchanged my cross with him? Would I like to play a homeless person or an abused child? Playing his or her life’s role means being him or her one hundred percent, with no escape. And why not? Am I so satisfied with my own role? Really?” That is when we either get frightened and run away, or bear it and our attachment to our role eases off even more. If we stand the test, we feel free and suddenly want to fly, give everything away, hug everybody… And this is when we try to stake everything: what about doing it like Jesus did – to love the Father deeply and to experience the role of a man at the same time, being aware beyond any doubt that this man is a mere character in God’s drama! To be aware of it every single moment, every single day, mindfully and clearly, with enormous kindness. Including even the crucifixion, if it is in the script… What 78 (10) Petr Pavlík
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