Let's face it, God is everywhere. Question is, what are we going to do about it?

Deep stuff, but it can't be that deep.

Well, we might pay attention to the God idea, which is what believers say. Not here to argue the point, rather to use it for starter.

Take confession, still a going term, once presented as replacement by the 1969 fellows as reconciliation, typical softening by the ‘69-ers as off-putting, something you can use in mixed company.

Find a confessor, the listener, who will be neither shocked nor bored, who pays attention to what you say and with any luck comes up with something that shows he gets you or at least does so this time. News you can use, you might say . . .

Then there’s praying, in which passivity is sometimes overrated. Referring here to the practice of sitting or kneeling in church, Blessed Sacrament exposed or not, waiting for the Spirit to move you. Overrated in this sense, that it might well not work for you. For others, not you.

What to do? Try jabbering away at The Almighty. He’s listening, of course. You do so respectfully, needless to say. You calm down if possible, keeping in mind whom you are talking to, letting it sink in as much as possible, drinking it in.

The Our Father and Hail Mary come highly recommended, but we speak here of some sort of contact that allows some sort of assertion of the self that’s not written in black and white. You’re getting personal with The Creator, carefully, respectfully.

Oh that word again, that concept that doesn’t make a big claim on your psyche but neither does it violate protocol. It’s a common enough word that you can relate to without jumping whole hog into the prescribed and, let us say, the scary.

It has so many meanings or situations which are appropriate, a sort of sounding board, or stepping stone. Use it for that. Watch your step.

You come hands empty? Most of us do. Go back. Pick up your Bible. The gospels serve you well at this point, all about the God-Man, the Son, making his way as salesman for what the Father has to say.

Listen to Him. Picture Him at work, as in St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises, 2nd week, as described here:

. . . . meditating on Jesus as itinerant preacher and miracle-worker. This was our introduction to the Ignatian imagination. We were put to picturing or contemplating Gospel events, as opposed to great and noble thoughts. In episode after episode, we imagined ourselves there with Jesus, almost without attention to the meaning of it for ourselves but rather to get familiar with him.

So. Take what you pictured and make it your own.

Read it in a good version, I mean translation and some explaining along the way. I recommend The Alba House Gospels, in the pages of which you find readable accounts that fit nicely in most pockets and/or purses. Among many others, of course.

Think it over. Take charge of the experience. Come to Jesus with it on your mind.

Sit or kneel with it on your mind. You’re in charge here. Relish the thought. Let the thinking flow. This is horse’s mouth stuff. React as the spirit moves you. Fifteen minutes wherever you find yourself.

In background is what? Rather, who?

The One who’s everywhere. Who else? You’ve done something about it. His world-wide presence, that is.