21/ The fourth-wall break is only complete, then, when truth isn't held as an account of reality, but inhabited as reality—a co-evolutionary encounter with the living God: not an insight we possess, but a participation we are drawn into—our lives reshaped as consummation in God.
@lukeburgis The deepest “first principle” here is that God chose visibility in humanness. Immanuel means God’s life takes flesh in us, so how we show up is how God arrives and takes public form—or is obscured, even contradicted.
![John Paul II: “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it."
Painting of three interlocking rings with calligraphy reading,
Alive already.
Why look for God?
Here! Right here!
Emmanuel.
[After Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari: "Why look for God up there? He's here! Here!"]](/media/2005878566026981884-G9ZP7K5awAAq892.jpg)
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John Paul II: “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it." Painting of three interlocking rings with calligraphy reading, Alive already. Why look for God? Here! Right here! Emmanuel. [After Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari: "Why look for God up there? He's here! Here!"]