The last name of Jesus is not Christ. Christ stands for God in the flesh. God with us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD7B3wr3xeY
If you watch this little youtube by Richard Rohr you will see what I believe, he hits it for me, right on. And he talks about Thomas Merton too, it's a way of being/seeing mystically as a Christian.
'A Christian is one who sees Christ everywhere else" Richard Rohr
We all have Christ in us, like waves on water... "God is begging for our compassion".