Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

Kindness is being placed at the address rather than treated as the evidence. Whatever is highest is not somewhere else waiting to be visited; it turns up wherever people are actually merciful to each other, which puts it in kitchens and hospital corridors as much as in any building set aside for it. A reader who believes nothing can still take the practical half, that tenderness is the nearest thing to the highest thing available.

That reframes the search. Rather than asking whether you feel close to something larger, notice whether anyone was treated more gently today because you were in the room. The presence tends to follow the practice rather than precede it.