Notes on the Glory of God

The Hebrew word for "glory" is כָּבוֹד, transliterated as "kavod." Kavod literally means "heavy" or "weighty."

Psalm 19.1 says, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."

Creation is heavy with significance. 

The world bears meaning. 

Reality is not hollow. Reality is fullness. 

Creation, as Gerard Manley Hopkins puts it, is charged with the grandeur of God. 

The world is filled with the weight of the divine presence.

The glory of God exerts an ontological pressure upon all that exists. Meaning impinges upon matter. Significances saturate each second and space.