The real question that every person asks in some form is not, “Does God exist?” but “Where does God exist?” Most of us start by looking “out there” for God as if God were some distant object that needed to be discovered. In reality, there is “no where” to go to look for God because he dwells inside of us. This is called in the Christian tradition, the Divine indwelling. This profound reality occurs at the moment of our Baptism. Baptism is not merely a social event, or a rite of passage for children to go through but it is a divine encounter. The Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, come to dwell in the baptized making them a “new creature.” The consequences of not realizing this truth in our life is literally a matter of life and death. If we don’t discover the presence of God within us then most likely we will spend out entire lives looking for something “out there” to console us, comfort us and bring us the peace we all desperately long for. This teaching of the Divine Indwelling reminds us that there is nowhere to go, God is already here, present inside of me. What I have to do, and what all true prayer is really about, is opening up to His presence. This reminds us that when we sit down in silent prayer we are not opening ourselves to a distant God, a “force or energy,” or some sort of “cosmic power,” but to the Living God-in “whom we live, move and have our being.”