The presence of God is on the gallows;
the presence of God is on the battlefront
where death and destruction are
imminent; the presence of God is where
every accident occurs anywhere in the
world. The presence of God is in all
those places and circumstances, but the
presence of God is of no avail to anyone
except to those who are dwelling in the
conscious awareness of this truth. We
must abide from morning to night and
night to morning in this realization:
Where I am, God is. The presence of
God is closer to me than breathing; I
and my Father are inseparable and
indivisible because we are one. If I
mount up to heaven, I will find God, not hat I will find God in heaven, but I will
take God up to heaven. If I make my
bed in hell, I will find God, not because God is in hell, but because I will take
God with me; and if I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will find
God because where I am, God is, and
where God is, I am: we are inseparably
and indivisibly one. JSG (The Contemplative Life)