God IN Us—Really?

We learned in our youth that “God is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent” [is everywhere, knows everything, and can do anything]. But exactly what are we thinking with that first word? Is it the classic Celtic spirituality which tells us that He’s “above us, below us, beside us, behind us, before us”—that we’re surrounded by the Creator of the universe? Or is it much deeper—that God not only made all people and things, but that He is IN them and us—in stones and trees and flesh, in a real way? if so, is that strictly on the spiritual level, but possibly at the molecular level as well? After all, it’s known that the relative size of the space between the protons in the center of an atom and the electrons whirling around it is roughly the same as the space between the sun and its planets: what or who fills that void? Could He REALLY literally be in all things? Can we even begin to get our heads around all this? And what does it matter? Maybe, just maybe, spiritual truths and physical truths aren’t so far apart after all!