The ministry of your presence -- a portrait of Christology

I met a woman in Houston, who explained a concept that I love - the ministry of your prescence. She spoke of the idea that being around someone, being in their presence was it's own type of ministry. She was a kind woman who took care of babies at the church there, and I remember her explaining this idea as we shared a hug. Her presence was perfect for babies, her sweet ministry of kindness and love, was evident even without words.

This concept becomes more evident when we think about Jesus of Nazareth.  Who would he be without his sense of Christ. What would his prescence be like to be around? Is the ministry of his presence as the Christ so overwhelming that it would bring tears to your ideas? Would this ministry of his presence as Christ be so obvious that we can't seperate it?

I think about two situations of Jesus when I think about him being the Christ or not the Christ. One I think about is him with the woman at the well. She touched him and he said "your faith has made you well". But her faith in what? In her own Christ? Or in this ministry of his presence? I would argue it's the latter truly. So can there really be a Jesus without this part of himself - can we reallly seperate Jesus from the Christ?

The other situation I think about in this scenario is when Jesus turns the water into wine. At one point, his Mother was like (pardon my modern day paraphrase) "come on Jesus, just go ahead and do this". Which means he probably performed many miracles at home, which means that's his Christhood showing and shining.

Seperation of the two seems impossible and at very least improbable. We are living in a fantasy world to think of the idea of seperating the Christ and Jesus - because if there was no Jesus the Christ, the stories about his presence, his Christ presence, would cease to exist entirely.