Two worlds

(The Pharisees) said, "Where is this so-called Father of yours?" Jesus said, "You're looking right at me and you don't see me.      John 8:19

head to head

From The Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke The first word that you ever spoke was: light. Thus time began. For long you said no more. Man was your second, and a frightening, word (the sound of it still shrouds us in its night), and then again you brooded as before.

Reflection

We can be right in front of something and miss it: hidden in plain sight. Jesus and his listeners are in two different worlds.