Presence presents

About a year before the birth of our son and up until this very day I've had a particularly growing sense of God's love for me and us (as his creation) in a way different than I had before. I have always heard of God's presence being in other people but for me this really wasn't how I felt. My relationship was with a being that was someone 'out there' listening to our concerns, caring for us intimately but from a distance. Sure, God was in other people and worked through them but much in the same way he was in the air; possibly in the ether in between atoms and what not - an omnipresent force without a face. A physically amorphous being capable of shape shifting into various forms in order to interact with his creation.

Well, as I was alluding, this has changed. Still an omnipresent force but now much more personal. Not without a face but rather with many. Not just taking on a face but being present there. The first face I distinctly saw this was in my wife. How very beautiful in a 'Song of Songs' way! This feeling was very overpowering and seriously life changing. I then felt this presence in a co-worker, not in a 'Song of Songs' way but still, in a very real way. From there I began to feel the presence in many of my friends and family not in a general way but a very specific and individual way. This also began a feeling of a connectedness with all creation. A two way connection between creator and creation that also in turn networks us all together across time and space in a holy communion (but that's another post :).

With the gift of our son growing within my wife's womb this presence was ever so strong there. In my wife and in our baby separately. And as a whole indeed even greater than the sum of its parts. The strength of this power has not diminished since John's birth but rather has intensified. While John is no longer in Tracy's womb, the umbilical cord cut, the 'whole' seems greater still.

without further adieu... ...heeeeeeere's Johnny!