God loves us too much to allow us to be satisfied and contented with mere images or signs of his Presence, like the material icons that we see or the mental concepts of him that we form with our intelligence. It is to his most secret and hidden abode-symbolised by the clouds which covered Mount Sinai or enveloped Jesus at his Ascension-that God calls his beloved children. The words of Jesus in the Gospel exactly express the Father'swill: 'Father, I desire that they also.may be with me where I am' (John17:24).From The Fire of Silence and Stillness: An Anthology of Quotations for the Spiritual Journey, ed. Paul Harris (Springfield, Illinois: Templegate, 1995), 13.
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