Add a little bit of Calvin, with a Dash of Wesley...and You've Got Me

So I was having a conversation the other day about God; and in the conversation we started talking about Sin and how it seperates you from God and how our postion stands with God. In the conversation I started telling her about how its weird with me because when I sin and do somthing wrong, that I didn't feel that "seperation" from God. She gave me an awkward look and said "Well, you should?" In responding, I stated back to her that I have always felt like Paul in Romans where he talks about how where there is Sin, Grace abounds all the more, and how I feel God draw closer to me when I sin. Of course the rest of the verse goes on to say that we don't keep on sinning, just to have grace poured out on us.
So of course with the conversation I just couldn't help but ponder these thoughts. I had heard this preached before in church in the past. How sin seperates us from God. However with the experiences that I've had within my own life; I have to say that I disagree I think. I mean, lets put this in perspective. (Theology class) Jesus came, He died, and was risen from the dead. His death brought about a righteousness from God that is imparted to us. Essentially meaning that we are given a status before God that is definatly not our own. (Personally, I will never in my lifetime call myself rightous) Our status is essentially borrowed from Jesus; when God looks at us, He doesn't see the ugly sinful people we can be. He sees the rightousness of Jesus and in effect, sees the same rightousness that Christ has, placed on us as our own. So why would God then after all Jesus did and will continue to do, suddenly seperate Himself from us as believers when we sin? To me, it doesn't make any sense, and personally I think a lot of Churches are missing this point. To me, sin is like letting a person down. If i lie to my earthly father, he is dissapointed in me, and is hurt, but he doesn't ever stop loving me; or make himself unavailable to me. I mean, if God seperated Himself from us when we sin? How would we get better? Better yet, the bible is full of people who were living in sin and God spoke to and still used them for great things. In essence, I think this seperation concept has created an ugly picture of God in a way, it paints a picture of a God who only wants somehting to do with us if we are perfect, and yet didn't Jesus come to bring home to the broken? I don't think God seperates Himself from us, but we seperate ourselves from Him, which is why He pours His grace out abundantly on us when we do Sin, because He wants us to come back home, just like He wants all the world to come home....