Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night’, even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. (Psalm 139: 7-12)

God is that which exists in the past, now, and in the future. God is what God chooses to be. God is becoming. God is what unfolds. God is the great "I am Who I am." God is in all things, even in darkness, even in Hell.

Moses was instructed to tell Pharoah that Hayah had sent him (Exodus 3:14). Becoming, Existing, Being, Doing has sent me. That which chooses, animates, moves, that which lives has sent me.

This is our essential nature. We have been sent to make choices, to unfold, to become. We sometimes resist our nature. We may seek to hide from it. But, ultimately, we choose: positively or passively, in love or in fear, with God or without.

Above is Le bonheur de vivre (Joy of Living) by Henri Matisse.