Where is God?

Preparing to talk about prayer in St Bride's tomorrow, I came across this wonderful passage from Thomas Merton...

“Life is simple.  We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through it all the time.  This is not just a fable or a nice story.  It is true.  If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently.  God shows himself everywhere, in everything—in people and in things and in nature and in events.  It becomes very obvious that God is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without him.  It’s impossible.  The only thing is that we don’t see it.”