God is very near to us and utterly other, distant from us.

A reflection used by Ruth Stock on Sunday night’s meeting of “Ruach-blessing” at St Bride's

In meditation we see that the divine nearness is not so different, not necessarily even more comforting, than the distance.

As we meditate we come to understand that it is precisely God's distance from us that is our invitation to journey beyond ourselves.

God's nearness encourages us to keep journeying; but God's distance reminds us that we must never try to capture or to control God, because we can't.

The human journey is the invitation to expand into God's boundlessness.

By a strange paradox, as we journey into the infinite space of God's being we come closer to one another.  True communion depends on people plumbing the depths of their own being, knowing themselves, and then revealing themselves known.

Love is fulfilled in the revealing of our true self to another who is equally real.

(from 'Door into Silence' sayings of John main ed by Laurence Freeman)