text: Pt. 2
  
  "I like the mystery/God is closer to us by choice and out of love" - - yes, that's it, isn't it?  God is a mystery, but so loved us that He humbled Himself to take on a human nature out of love.  That is a mystery.  Certainly through the Incarnation God is close to us, and moreso, in a sense, when we receive His Body and Blood.  I think rather than mystery/otherness as something to be sought, many EF folks seek transcendance - - a sense of the holy and sacred which the quiet and contemplation of the EF fosters better for some people.   Another poster in the thread spoke of the Mass as feeling like a supper club (I know this is not your position), and for many, I think, it lacks a sense of the reverence appropriate to the Divine and to our Savior.  As in many Catholic things, it's both/and  God with us in the Incarnation and the Body and Blood, yet still retaining all of His Divine attributes wherein He is the creator and we are the creatures.  
  
  Does that make sense?