Therefore if it come into thy mind, asking as it were of thyself: What has thou lost, and what seekest thou? lift up thy mind and the desire of thy heart to Jesus Christ, though thou be blind, and canst see nought of His Godhead, and say that: Him hast thou lost, and Him wouldst thou have, and nothing but Him, to be with Him where His is. No other joy, no other bliss in Heaven or in earth, but Him. (John Climacus)

I have lost - most of us have lost - an abiding relationship with God.

We are in relationship with God, this we cannot escape nor deny.

But I do not abide - continue, remain, patiently engage - with God.

In the example of Jesus I can know how a human might abide with God.

And in seeking, no matter how awkwardly, to be be friends with Jesus I can abide again with God.

The image is of Christ by Leonardo DaVinci.