god with, always: a loving, humble god who finds it delightful to accompany us at every moment of our journey.
when you and i practice with, we have come in church documents to call it solidarity – a presence with another or others that is acting according to our connection one with each other. it is a living in response to the fact that we are all one community, one body, one communion. there is a special quality of god’s presence to us, as seen in the life of jesus, that we might practice most deliberately in our own circumstances this lent.
let me describe it with an image. if my arm 