Our connection with the wonder and energy, with the field, with ‘God’s body’, is a felt experience as we creatures of nature and the universe, creatures of flesh and blood, of chemistry, electricity and magnetism, register that we are fully alive and that we are inextricably part of this extraordinary universe.

oceans, and mountains swirl and rise and sink. This rabbinic midrash reflects the same reality that science does: we are all, literally, composed of the entire earth, indeed, of stardust from supernovae millions of light-years away. The components of our bones, the cells of our blood, the air that we breathe—all that was used by others before us,

this connection extends to all Christians everywhere, past and present (Heb. 12:1–2), and to Jesus Christ Himself (1 Cor. 12:12–