How ironical that the control and power we strive for, the ruthless wars we wage, all we lust after or become addicted to, praise or destroy according to our imaginary ideologies, despair we will never enjoy, or fantasise we have possession of but deny to others – how disarmingly funny that it gives itself to us so simply when we are helpless. This is the Gospel’s teaching revealed not in complex ideas but in the life-story and teaching of a unique person present in our three dimensions but recognisable only in that other dimension reserved for the poor in spirit.