There’s a quote I came across recently that stopped me in my tracks:
“We are never so low that He is not beneath us.”
It’s one of those lines that doesn’t shout, but instead whispers something so powerful you can feel it settle in your bones. And if you’ve ever felt broken, unseen, or hopeless — you know exactly what it means.
I think back to a time in my own life when everything felt like it was falling apart. The plans I’d laid out so neatly unraveled. Prayers seemed to go unanswered. I kept showing up — at work, at home, at church — but inside, I was just… tired. And in that tiredness, I felt a quiet shame. A feeling like, “God must be disappointed in me.” Like I had somehow drifted too far.
But this quote — this quiet truth — reminds us of something the world doesn’t always say:
There is no depth too deep, no failure too far, no sorrow too heavy where God cannot reach.
It’s easy to believe in God when life is tidy. When prayers are answered the way we want them to be. When you can say “God is good” and everything around you agrees.
But the real miracle?
It’s knowing that when you’re lying face down in the dirt, God isn’t waiting for you to climb your way back up. He’s already right there beside you.
The Catholic faith is rich with stories of this kind of God — one who stoops, who kneels, who gets His hands dirty for the sake of love. Think of Jesus washing the feet of His disciples. Think of Him weeping at Lazarus’ tomb. Think of Him, arms stretched on a cross, lowering Himself to our human suffering in the most radical way imaginable.
That’s not a distant God.
That’s a God who gets under our pain to carry it.
Who goes lower than our lowest so He can lift us up.
So if you’re in a place right now where things feel heavy or hollow — know this:
You’re not beneath God’s love.
You’re not too lost.
You’re not too broken.
He’s already beneath you, holding you up, waiting patiently not for perfection, but simply for you to reach back.
And if that’s not Good News, I don’t know what is!
Kenrick Vaz 