St. Augustine turned the telescope into a microscope when he said that God is closer to us than we are to ourselves. If God seems distant to us, then so will our neighbour, especially the neighbour on the sidewalk or in the food bank line. Scriptures teach the humane priority of caring for the poor and needy. Feed the hungry first, then go for
growth. This wisdom is immanent, inherent to us, but it is no less embodied and this-worldly. Care for the uncared for is the portal to the transcendent. God – and therefore our own reality – is found in present embodied truth not in projected speculation. Without this truth we are deluded. Without contact we become isolated.
The present embodied truth
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