Panentheism: God is Within Us

Author Mark Link tells the story of a little girl who was standing next to a well with her grandfather. As they lowered a bucket down into the well for a drink of water, the little girl asked her grandfather where God lived. In answer to her question, her grandfather picked her up and held her so that she could see down into the well. He told her to look in the water and tell him what she saw, and she told him that she could see herself in the reflection of the water. Her grandfather told her that that was where God lived, inside of her.

What a wonderful image of God to share with a young child, that God isn