quote for today

i feel like i keep drawing from the same well...but this stuff is some good thinkin material. the paradox of God's immanence and transcendence has bent men's concepts of the universe for ages. currently, we try to tackle it in the deceptively simple "Now and Not Yet"--as if in that one phrase, we've become masters of our ignorance. of course, how do we describe something that we don't have the power to do in and of ourselves and really exists simply as a concept--an attribute of the Invisible God? this article throws the absolute "otherness" of God back in our faces, even when we've gotten used to thinking of God as nearby. here's a quote: "The Divine Dawning" by Karl Rahner "Are you the eternal Advent? Are you he who is always still to come, but never arrives in such a way as to fulfill our expectations? Are you the infinitely distant One, who can never be reached? "Are you only the distant horizon surrounding the world of our deeds and sufferings, the horizon which, no matter where we roam, is always just as far away? Are you only the eternal Today, containing within itself all time and all change, equally near to everything, and thus also equally distant? "When our bleeding feet have apparently covered a part of the distance to your eternity, don't you always retreat twice as far away from us, into the immense reaches filled only by your infinite being? Has humanity drawn the least bit closer to you in the thousands and thousands of years that have elapsed since it boldly began its most exciting and fearsome adventure, the search for you? "Have I come any nearer to you in the course of my life, or doesn't all the ground I have won only make my cup all the more bitter because the distance to you is still infinite? Must we remain ever far from you, O God of immensity, because you are ever near to us, and therefore have no need of "coming" to us? Is it because there is no place in our world to which you must first "find your way"? "You tell me that you have really already come, that your name is Jesus, Son of Mary, and that I know in what place and at what time I can find you. That's all true, of course, Lord--but forgive me if I say that this coming of yours seems to me more like a going, more like a departure than an arrival...."