The Living Word who created all things came to us as a human in Jesus.  And the same living word comes to us today by the Spirit. So, the Word is not distant, but near.  We are encountered by a person so that we come to know God himself as personal.  He does not give us ideas about himself.  He comes to us personally through his Living Word by his Spirit. That means we do not project our own ideas upward trying to paint our own picture of God.  God has already made himself known personally and he wants to go on doing so. 

Through his Living Word, the self-giving of God gives himself to be present among us.  We might say that, in our experience, the Living Word seems mostly absent.  We are left simply going through the motions of worship and prayer with little or no personal encounter.  Nevertheless, we must affirm that God wants to meet with us through his Word and by his Spirit. We must simply be attentive and present to his presence. As God’s presence resonates in our presence, our thinking is reordered as Jesus displays what is real about God, ourselves, and the world. When God is known in this way, everything changes.

In God’s Presence, we are opened to apprehend the mystery of God simply by being attentive to his voice. We know that we can never comprehend, but in humility, we open ourselves to discover more and more of the Mystery.  In that way, we apprehend while never comprehending.   This opens the way for ever deeper relationships with God and one another.