After-Thoughts on: 'What in the World Is Going On?'

I had a few more thoughts in continuation with this idea of the binary in thought or approach and the necessity of a third part in order to mediate. In a trinitarian relationship one arrives at the fullness of spirit.  A right/wrong mentality towards the law needs Christ's mediating spirit to bring it to life. The Creator is animated life-breath, not stagnant or hardened. But what is it exactly about the third element that makes it effective. If we are aiming for balance we cannot be overly rooted in merely the spirit of the law or the letter. Jesus is a perfect embodiment of that balance. He goes to the proud hypocrites (the pharisees) in judgement and condemnation, calling them Vipers. He has the moral authority being without sin—no beams for him to pluck out. On the other hand he goes to the poor, penitent and humble in love and mercy in order to draw them to him. He seems to know exactly which manner of medicine is needed and meets it out in a perfect dose. After all, he is the Great Physician. 

The point more precisely that occurred to me this AM as I ran through the winter woods was: How did he bring in the life-breath, the spirit to the hardened law? It seems he brings his presence in the present moment and in human connection, or relationship to the other. When he decides to heal on the Sabbath day, there is no looking back and holding on to an idea that this is the way it has always been done and therefore needs to be continued to be done in that way (i.e., this healing must at all costs wait until Monday). There is also no forward catastrophizing.  Even the Son of Man concedes that only the Father can truly know the future ("But concerning that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the Father." — Mark 13:32). So he is totally and completely in the present moment, dealing with the full contextual aspect of that moment and facing the being in front of him in a humane way. There is a sensitivity to all of these varying circumstances being taken into consideration. It occurs to me that this is the key. We cannot hold on to the past nor project in the future, but are called to be here now, fully present, fully engaged, and as we are able doing so in love and mercy.