Today's feast is about seeing and believing. "The other disciple ¡K saw and he believed." It is about transcendence and immanence. "The Word was with God and the Word was God. ¡K and the Word became flesh and lived among us." In the first reading this is said in the following words: "Something which has existed since the beginning" and at the same time something "we have heard¡K have seen with our own eyes, that we have watched and touched with our hands." John in his writings brings the inaccessible God down to us through the Word that became a human person, "like us in everything except sin." And He leads us up through that enfleshed Word to the God who lives in the "cloud of unknowing." Every day of our lives, if we use the eyes of faith, we can see, hear and touch God in the people and experiences around us, in our shared Christian living. At the same time, we are urged to reach out through and beyond every experience to that God who draws us to Himself. As Jesus emptied Himself to bring God's love to us, we also need to empty ourselves totally to be absorbed by Him who is all Truth and all Love.