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Dear Friends,

If someone were to ask you where God is to be found, how would you respond?  Would you send them to a particular place, with a specific address?  Or would you point to a particular group of people and say, “You’ll find God among them.”  Would you send them to a quiet stretch along Moonlight beach, or to a long set of steps that lead high up into the Himalayas, or to the wide-open solitude of the desert, or to the crowded Western Wall of Jerusalem.?  Where is God to be found?

The truth, of course, is that God can be found in all such places.  Each of us can likely name a place, or a circumstance from our past, in which we experienced the presence of God in real and powerful ways.  Maybe it was at church, or on a retreat, or in your living room, or in a distant, unfamiliar place. 

This Sunday, Luke tells us a story about the day Jesus showed up in a powerful and memorable way.  In a little town called Nain, Jesus raised a young man from the dead.  To the casual reader it might sound like just another miracle story in the Bible, but for Luke, it was not the miracle itself that caught his attention.  Rather, it was what all the people of Nain were saying afterwards: “God has visited us.”

Sometimes the real miracle is not that God chooses to visit us, in both extraordinary and ordinary ways, but that we actually recognize it when it does indeed happen.

I’ll see you Sunday. 

Rev. Mark