And Rabbi David A. Teutsch, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, wrote: "When we do not feel the presence of the Divine, living Torah keeps God present nonetheless".
It was good to feel the work -- so much an appeal to God present in nature -- being shouted into the woods.
The sealing of every shared covenant and the life that is shaped are significant and needed ways in which the church finds God present in human relationships.
So, for example, Maximilian Kolbe in the charnel house of Auschwitz, Tom Merton in the lonely anguish of his hermitage, Samuel Schereschewsky wracked by Parkinson's disease as he completed his translation of the Gospels into Chinese: all three, in their experiences and struggles realised that God was present to them, and through this understanding, were able to make God present for others.
Although God presents possibilities to the events in the world, each event "decides" how it will actualize those possibilities.
These four divisions of nature taken together are to be understood as God, presented as the 'Beginning, Middle and End of all things'.
But, because God does not determine the response of each event to the possibilities that God presents, any event may reject God's purpose of good through the intensification of experience and actualize a less intense experience.
Steve Ramsey of Quandary said Drowned God presented its massive assortment of conspiracy theories entertainingly.
Unfortunately, it can be hard to see God present in churches.
And God presents the blessed, beautiful saint with a challenge: Potiphar's wife.
