Ephesians 1:18
And so when we pray there's no question of God being present or absent. Our feelings may say, "I don't feel anything." So what? We're not our feelings. We decide to believe God is there because that's what our faith has revealed to us, and if you are dong a contemplative practice long enough you know this is true without anybody having to tell you because you have sensed and experienced some little touch of the presence of God.
But it's a process, dear friends, and the taste that we have of God can continue to develop into ever deeper levels of intimacy that are absolutely inconceivable to us in the beginning--beyond anything, as Paul says, we could imagine or dream of is the closeness of God's presence.
And it's a closeness that is totally loving, concerned, nourishing, supportive, sympathetic, empathic -- every human relationship that is beautiful and good and true all rolled into one and multiplied millions of times over.
Ephesians 3:20
Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine...
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