Genesis 3:8-10 ; Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.
What can cause us to be separated from our Lord Jesus Christ is sin, when we sin not only do we inflict harm to our body but also our spirit and soul, our spirit connects us to the Lord, to the heavenly realms and our soul connects our spirit to our body, thus whichever is the strongest of the two takes hold of our soul, and so your soul stems from either the your spiritual being or physical being.
God is a holy Being, he is without blemish and he certainly does not entertain blemish and so when we were created he gave us a part of him that we may be just like him and live pure and holy life but then we went astray and lost the Glory of the Lord but Christ is here to atone for our sins and through him as the bridge we get to be with God again.
Whenever we sin and go against his commandments and instructions we move further away from the bridge and distance between us and salvation get longer, when we are forgiven and reconciled we get closer and so as we get closer to the celebration of the birth of our Lord may we reconcile and be closer to salvation now more than ever.