YOU ARE LOOKING AT ME
Meditation course: Sit in a quiet corner of the room. Raise your eyes and remember, „GOD, YOU ARE HERE.“ Your eyes are watching me, your face is looking at me. It is wonderful. You are watching me. You are watching me. Now your gaze is on my face. It is magnificent! Here, I am watching you too. I AM HERE. Our gaze met. I only want to watch you for the next fifteen minutes. You manage our conversation. I am looking at you… I am watching your bright eyes… Jesus, you are looking at me, and I am looking at you.
Do not rush. Say all this calmly, consciously, slowly, taking your time, absorbing every word. Then stay calm and only be aware that you are looking at the face of Jesus and that he is looking at you. Endure that encounter of your eyes calmly, relaxed, consciously. You will come out completely different from that encounter. Full of joy, tears of joy, health, strength, faith and love.
Where is God? Is there a place somewhere where God is not? God not only created the world and us men but sustains all. What does that mean? It means that God creates you, me, and the world at all times. He says every moment to everything and situation in life: let it be. If he would only distance himself from us for a moment, we would cease to exist. Tomorrow does not exist. God must create it, and so he must create you in it. God, therefore, is constantly creating you. He is always with you. He wants you every moment. He likes you. He loves you and wants you to live on Earth and in eternity.
He likes your very existence. But you resist him. You are afraid that someone else is leading your life. So you do not accept what God wants. When you agree to what he does, when you believe that he is at work in your life and that no one can do anything to you when you are with him, then your life will begin to change. Then you trust him and allow him to make his amazing plan for you. Your happiness is starting to blossom. So where is God to you? To you precisely, where is he?
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
