God comes to us disguised as our life, which seems to be the last place we want God to be. It is all too ordinary, mundane, fleshy, and unspiritual. It is just "me" and just "you" and just daily life. It is both the perfect hiding place and the perfect revelation place for the Holy One. "What good can come from that place?" Nathaniel says. And Jesus replies, "Come and see!" By allowing himself to be taken to "the commonplace," the ordinary, to "Our Town," he discovers his soul unveiled, through a moment of such intimacy that even we are not privy to it. It is merely a human disclosure and encounter "under a fig tree" that brings Nathaniel to conversion. No mention of sanctuary, sacrament, or the sacred whatsoever.
— Richard Rohr, Soul Brothers