How do we taste and see God’s goodness? Some people experience a perceptual phenomenon called synesthesia, a condition in which our senses cross wires. For example, some can say that they see orange or feel green, red may make them feel hot, or listening to music can change body temperature. Today’s psalm is an example of synesthesia in the spiritual life. We taste and see God’s goodness. We encounter God with all our senses, spiritual and physical.

Saint Paul encourages us to be imitators of Christ. We do not copy Christ but to imitate him. To copy Jesus is something where all our externals have Christian facades. We go to Church on Sunday; we read scriptures. Copying Christ has nothing to do with internal structures. To imitate Christ is to love what he loved in the way he loved.

There are two essential things in life: the people we spend time with and food. When we spend quality time with people, we begin to imitate them. We mirror their mannerisms and adopt their values. We need food to stay alive. To imitate Christ is to spend time with and consume him, pointing us to the Eucharist. We celebrate liturgy to know him and to gnaw at his flesh to be like him. We tase him in the Eucharist; we see him as we behold him in regular visits to adoration.

Jesus is the bread that comes down from heaven. Bread and quail – wheat and flesh. Jesus is who he says he is.