Text: Leviticus 22:-18
While there is a strangeness that separates us from a Holy God, we sense that it is not altogether unwelcoming. While the rigors of separateness keep us apart from Him who is perfect, we are given an invitation to draw near. We are drawn to God whose light exposes us, but embraces us in the warmth of His love. We find His all-encompassing purity - unblinking and unsparing - shows us what we are and how we stand in His presence, and yet we find Him here with us. He has not cloaked Himself and hid, nor turned away in disgust.
"All around us, to right and left, in front and behind, above and below, we have only to go a little beyond the frontier of sensible appearances in order to see the divine welling up and showing through. But it is not only close to us, in front of us, that the divine presence has revealed itself. It has sprung up universally, and we find ourselves so surrounded and transfixed by it, that there is no room left to fall down and adore it, even within ourselves.
By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and moulds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers. In eo vivimus. As Jacob said, awakening from his dream, the world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. " Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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