The CAC meditation’s line, “Jesus didn’t go anywhere” shows me how childish (not childlike) my understandings can still be. The reminder that the God of my understanding is here, that the universe isn’t divided into separate levels of ‘heaven and earth’ but, rather, is one, is precious. Rather than gazing up into the sky at some imaginary place where I will be transported someday, I will find God by looking all around me – into the eyes of the clerk at the grocery store, my next-door neighbor, the hummingbird outside my living room window, and even somehow within the tragedies in the world this past week. This Divine presence is always always here.
