Today’s Life-Line is:

God has always been coming. . .
God is always coming because God is life,
and life has the unbridled force of creation.

God comes because God is light, and light may not remain hidden.
God comes because God is love, and love needs to give of itself.
God has always been coming; God is always coming.

This evening, as I gazed at the extraordinary desert sky,
I saw the heavenly body farthest from the earth
and still visible to the naked eye: the nebula of Andromeda.
It appeared as a pale, lentil-shaped light between
the geometric regularity of Cassiopeia
and the Pleiades’ incomparable diamond.
The light of that tiny lentil is not the light of today;
it is from a million years ago.

This evening I saw backwards a million years, ten thousand centuries.

The pale light of the nebula, which reached my eye this evening,
left there a million years ago at the speed of 187,000 miles per second.
From that time, and doubtless from before then,
God has been coming to meet [us].
But Andromeda is only the nearest galaxy to ours; by now astronomers
are used to calculating distances in the tens of thousands of light years
which separate us from the many other galaxies lost in space.

It is a long time since God set out to come to [us],
a time I was not yet born.
Neither had the sun nor the moon nor the earth
nor my history nor my problems been born.

~  Carlo Carretto, slightly adapted from The God Who Comes