Fatherly Advice

"We can be lifted up toward the Most High only if the Lord who lifts up the humble has stooped down to what is below. That is whay the soul that rises toward the things that are above asks the help of the Transcendent One and begs him to descend from His majesty in order to become accessible to those who are below." -Gregory of Nyssa Homily 10 on the Song of Songs

I prefer the early Christian vision of the nearness of God. Not that God is innately "near" or "approachable," but that the One who is essentially Transcendent will, when we humbly beg Him, stoop to help us.