Everywhere At Once
You fill all things. (Sunday Letter)
I have been thinking about omnipresence.
You are so many places, Lord. You are all things. I look across the valley and see you in the mist below, in the mountains across the way. You are the peak that looms above my village. You are the clouds and storms that pass over.
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Even here, within these walls, you are present. In the quiet ticking of the clock. In the warmth of the small lamp by my side. In the faint scent of the garden drifting through the open window. You are here in my breath, in the pulse that keeps time beneath my skin.
Everywhere, you fill the space that thought cannot.
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How strange that I still search for you as if you were far off, when you saturate the air around me. You are both the silence and the sound within it.
Be with me, Lord—not because you ever leave, but because I so often forget.
Let me feel your nearness in all things.
What could ever be apart from you?
– from the mountain
Consider:
Devotional question?
Reading:
“God is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.” — Book of the 24 Philosophers
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“Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells in God.” — Julian of Norwich
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“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?” — Psalm 139:7 (KJV)
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