Who Is God? The God Who Refuses to Stay Outside Your Life

Communion begins where you are.

If the Gerasene story unsettled you, let it. The Gospel is not polite; it is intimate. God does not remain outside the tombs we build. God enters them.

The Incarnation means that God has refused no human experience... Not weakness...Not humiliation... Not suffering... Not death. This is not abstract doctrine. It is God saying, “I will not stay outside your life.”

Divine Life Is Shared, Not Guarded

John O’Donnell writes:

“The doctrine of the Trinity exists to guarantee that the event of God’s love which I experience in Jesus really is identical with God himself.”

The love you experience in Christ is not a temporary expression; it is God’s eternal being. The love between Father and Son is not closed. It is offered, which means: You are not being invited to behave better; you are being invited to participate in divine communion and respond from there.

This Is the Foundation of Everything

The Principle and Foundation is not sentimental; it is ontological. Remember:

You were created from Love.

You are created for Love.

You are being created to live in Love.

If that is true, then the entire spiritual life is not about climbing upward - it is about consenting to what already surrounds you. God is not waiting for you to qualify. God has already come.

Building a Life through Divine Sharing

Everything I do: teaching, spiritual direction, retreats, farm mornings, prayer in the dark, rests on this conviction: God shares His life.

Sweetly.

Gently.

Steadily.

I do not wake each day trying to earn God; I wake within God's Embrace. There is a quiet companionship that has grown over the years, not dramatic, not loud, but unwavering. When I wash dishes, sit with someone’s sorrow, or fail and begin again.

God is not evaluating.

God is sharing.

This sharing has changed how I see everything.

The Final Invitation

Next month, we will begin to unfold you - the you who God wants you to see. This month ends here:

Who are you willing to become in response to this Love?

If God does refuse to stay outside your life…

Will you stop keeping God outside your wounds?

Will you stop defining yourself by tombs?

Will you dare to believe you are incorporated into divine life?

This is not inspiration; let it be transformation.

Embodied Sending

Sit quietly.

Place one hand on your heart. One hand open in your lap.

Whisper: “I receive the life You share.”

Then: “I will live from it.”

Stay long enough to feel it.

You are not alone.

You never were.

From the garden within me to the garden within you, where God awaits,

Kimi

Companions Along the Way

This month’s reflections were shaped by teachers and writers who have helped me contemplate the depth of God’s self-giving love and the mystery of divine communion:

Hanvey, James. The Incarnation, the Cross, and Spirituality.

Kasl, Charlotte. If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path.

O’Donnell, John. Incarnation and Trinity.