God with us—not in heaven, not out of touch or out of reach

He takes my nature that He may descend to me;
He gives me His nature that I may ascend to Him.
-Octavius Winslow

God with us—not in heaven, not out of touch or out of reach, 
not a shadow, not a legend or a myth; God with us in grace, in truth, in mercy; 
God with us in human flesh, touchable, seeable, knowable.
Love breathing, love giving, love caring, love dying. 
Walking where we walk, crying our tears, knowing our pain, feeling our grief, bearing our sorrows.

John 1:14(KJV)
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.