WHERE IS GOD?

Philip's request to Jesus resonates with what many among us long for: "Show us the Father and we will be satisfied!" Some ask this question in the comforts of their armchairs inside their air-conditioned offices. Tens of millions ask this as they struggle to survive from one day to the next.

Where is God?

One seventh of one year's income from the richest 2,000 people on earth can eradicate poverty while 25,000, 40% of them children, starve to death every single day. Where is God?

The world's richest countries spend close to 2 trillion dollars a year on weapons of mass destruction when less than a third of that amount can provide basic education, health care, and decent housing for the poorest nations. Where is God?

Those of us who call ourselves Christian believe in the incarnation. Where is God? Among us. Between us. One of us. Often a stranger. Human. Anywhere and everywhere we experience goodness wrestling free from evil; where we find hope being triumphant over despair; where we encounter faith stronger than fear; where we see love chosen over indifference; where we experience life rising up in the midst of death.

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*art, "Pentecost," JESUS MAFA, 1973, from the vanderbilt divinity library digital archives.