“Incarnation is the overcoming of the gap between God and everything visible and concrete. It is the synthesis of matter and spirit. Without incarnation, God remains separate from us and from creation. Because of incarnation, we can say, ‘God is with us!’ In fact, God is in us, and in everything else God has created. We all have the divine DNA. Everything bears the divine fingerprint, including, of course, the mystery of embodiment.
“The belief that God is ‘out there’ is the basic dualism that is tearing us all apart. Our view of God as separate and distant has harmed our relationship to food, possessions, and money, to animals, nature, and our own bodies. This loss is foundational to why we live such distraught and divided lives….”
From Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations—Sunday, June 6, 2021