Coram Deo

Coram Deo - "before the face of God" or "in the presence of God"
(Jerome used this lots in the Vulgate) It is like an Eastern Court, where the servants were always before the king, always alert, always aware of his presence, ready, prepared to do his bidding - to live in and to be aware of God's presence, responsive to His word, always eagar and ready to serve Him, to do His bidding not our own!
God's presence, His glorious presence, fills the whole world, packed, tingly, ready to burst out in everything.
Thus God is everywhere. We just need to be more aware of that and help others to be made more aware of that, to look, to learn, to live, to listen, to live and be in this God filled world more and more.
If God is everywhere I have no fear of going to the places He sends me because He has gone before me. And if God is everywhere then everything is redeemable.

It is always interesting how reading "Living at the Crossroads" has helped me to get even more of a handle round last weekend. It all starts to open up and make more sense. Though comes with more frustrations too as I try to be bold but gentle in sharing this.