God is not squeamish...

This marvelous anthology of books and letters called the Bible is all for the sake of astonishment! It's for divine transformation (theosis), not intellectual or "small self" coziness.

The genius of the biblical revelation is that we will come to God through what I’m going to call the "actual," the here and now, or quite simply what is.

God is always given, incarnate in every moment and present to those who know how to be present themselves.

Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life. That's opposed to God holding out for the pure, the spiritual, the right idea or the ideal anything. This is why Jesus stands religion on its head!

That is why I say it is our experiences that transform us if we are willing to experience our experiences all the way through.

"God comes disguised as our Life" (a wonderful line I learned from my dear friend and colleague, Paul D'Arcy).

Richard Rohr, from Things Hidden

God is not squeamish. We may be, but "God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature ... He likes matter. He invented it." (CS Lewis, Mere Christianity) He also invented emotions, reason, intuition, and all the other wonderful bits and pieces that go to make up being human - not to mention all the marvelous components, mental, physical and spiritual, of being feline, bovine, canine, helminthic, arborescent, or just plain mineral. He's seriously into stuff - he created the lot, and he saw that it was good. The fact that much of it got screwed up somewhere down the line doesn't alter the way he feels about it - us - all, and to prove that, the wonderful intricacy that is Trinity somehow in some unimaginable way slotted deity into the wonderful intricacy of human sexual reproduction, and was born of a Virgin. A real, warm, human, flesh and blood Virgin, whose love and perfect trust opened the door to God in her own body, and he was born as man. It was as man that he lived, taught, loved, healed and died, and it was as man that he was raised, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. (That is the point of that extraordinary jetpack scene in Acts 1.) Christ reigns, and will reign in glory, but he hasn't disincarnated in order to do that.

CS Lewis again: "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship..." (The Weight of Glory)

Never ever let us loathe what we have been made - we are the flesh and blood of Adam, whom God saw to be very good. Christ lives in us. We have been created a little lower than the angels.