I don't believe in a God who's far away I believe in Jesus living here with us today. This kind of understanding should come easily to Lutherans, the tradition I belong to. In Luther s Catechism, the phrase in, with and under is used in relation to the sacraments. God s activity, God s presence is understood to be so closely identified with the physical elements of water, bread, wine that God is in, with and under the elements. Hidden but present.
Faith believes what it can t see.
But perhaps this kind of spirituality is too common, too ordinary for people to get excited about. We naturally find it hard to believe that spiritual realities are right in front of us, just as the two on the road to Emmaus didn t recognise their companion. Taking bread and blessing, breaking, Jesus is himself made known. Good As It Gets . Near the end, Melvin says to Carol, I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that s all about being straight and good.