As we are in the season of Advent I have been reflecting much over the last week about Immanuel - God with Us. Here is a quote I really like from Albert Edward Day in The Captivating Presence:
But God is present in reality no what unreality our practices and our ponderings imply.
He is forever trying to establish communication;
forever aware of the wrong directions we are taking and wishing to warn us;
forever offering solutions for the problems that baffle us;
forever standing at the door of our loneliness, eager to bring us such comradeship as the most intelligent living mortal could not supply;
forever clinging to our indifference in the hope that someday our needs, or at least our tragedies will waken us to respond to his advances.
The Real Presence is just that, real and life-transforming.
God is present because God is with us!
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