June 22, 2021
As I was driving into Mass this past Sunday morning, along an almost deserted highway, and contemplating the sky and the cloud formation, a question formed in my heart, “Lord, where are you? Do You hear me? Do You see me?”
The Lord seemed to give this response:
I envelop and enfold you in My Presence. I am not a physical entity, as you suppose from the many images in historic art where I am depicted seated on a heavenly throne. I am not confined to space and cannot be located at some fixed point in the Universe. I fill the whole Universe with My Presence. In the same way, as it says, in Genesis, that I ‘…hovered over the water…’ in the beginning, I continue to ‘hover’ over all of creation, including you.
As I hovered, I ‘spoke’, and instantly created, physical universes came into being, but I am not part of those physical realities. I encircle and surround them with My Presence, like an ever-present cloud – and I am contained in all of it at once, not in a single, specific location.
While I can be seen in the physical form in the Person of My Son, I am not ‘substance’ in the entirety of My Being.
As you have reflected upon your experience of the ‘sound surround’ of the robin’s song at dawn, when you have stepped out your door at first light of day, so am I. I am all around you, but you cannot pinpoint My Presence anymore than you can identify the location of a single, solitary, singing bird, as several of them call back and forth, unseen, and their song fills the air around you.
I envelop the Universe I have created, and, at the same time, I envelop and surround you. I ‘hear’ you and I ‘see’ you because you, too, are part of My created worlds. I feel the beat of your heart, and know the thoughts of your mind, instantaneously. There is no distance between you and Me. I absorb all of who and what you are into My Being – because I AM.
Ending Our Life Well 