God conceals himself... God reveals mysteries. The Lord is King; the people tremble... He has pity on the weak and poor. Daniel 2:29, Psalm 99:1, 72:13; Isaiah 57:15.

Where is God? In heaven, in sacred places and religious celebrations, yes, but also within us, as the Ground of our being (Tillich), in ordinariness and in crisis, in the variegated beauty of creation, in others and uniquely in Jesus of Nazareth ('God was in Christ'). We think about God in terms of transcendance ('outthereness') and immanence ('down-hereness').

God is not merely 'far away', beyond the bright blue sky; he is closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. God is the life in every living thing ('present in all his works though still unseen' - Justin Martyr), but as Creator is greater than the sum of them all.

O come let us adore him!

May the One who is near each loving heart stay close by you, for ever. Amen.