Can we ever really be separated from God? If each of us is truly His child, why is it that His care sometimes seems so far away or nonexistent?
There really is no gulf between God and man. The separation many of us feel at times (or all the time) isn't due to the realities of existence but to how we view ourselves and our relation to God. By spiritualizing our concept of who we are, we find that God's guidance, protection, and supply are always right at hand.
Man is generally assumed to be what he appears to be—a material, imperfect mortal, whose nature is exactly the opposite of God's. Human reason tries to reconcile this material view of man with a divinely perfect, spiritual God, hypothesizing from this basis of separation how God meets our human needs—or why He doesn't meet them. But a material sense of creation can't be reconciled with God, infinite Spirit, because Spirit never made a material man. The man God made— which is the real selfhood of each of us—was created in Spirit's image and likeness. The likeness of Spirit isn't matter, the likeness of good isn't evil, the likeness of divinity isn't human and corporeal. The mortal that seems separated from God isn't who we really are.
