Trying to Grasp Jesus

As I have written in other posts, Jesus is a difficult figure for me. He is too grand, too imposing, and the theology about him is too hard to grasp.  I had a flash of actually liking Jesus, deeply, when I heard the gospel reading about him defending a sinful woman, probably a prostitute, against those who condemned her.

In some odd way, I felt an intuitive flash of understanding of the prologue to John's gospel today. I had been trying to read some essays on mind and matter written by Erwin Schrodinger, the Nobel laureate in physics whose Schrodinger equations are so important to quantum mechanics. He had a mystical belief in one universal mind. His views were very close to those found in Eastern religions. I was thinking of the Word in John's gospel, the Logos, a kind of eternal wisdom similar to what Schrodinger writes about. And I thought of Jesus as the embodiment of that Logos, that eternal mind.  A passage that had previously only been beautiful words took on a new meaning and I came closer to grasping what John meant--or at least I think I did.