The incarnation is the connecting link between creation and re-creation. . . . God fully participated in our humanity. In Jesus, then, we see what a human being who participates in God looks like. . . . The spiritual life, like the incarnation, is participation in this world, this life, this place, in our day-to-day relationships in family, work, church, and leisure.
-Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 172-173.