What a wonderful scripture reading we have from the First book of Kings today. We often expect to see God in a profound, momentous experience in our lives, such as Elijah’s experience with a great wind, a powerful earthquake, or ferocious flames of fire. Yet, these powerful scenes of nature did not accompany the divine presence, but rather God was found in that quiet, soft whisper. When I was on pilgrimage in Spain, one of the men who went with us kept on saying: “Father Lincoln, I just don’t feel like a pilgrim.” I guess he expected some profound insight or some rich, eventful experience from God to make his pilgrimage trip complete. Instead, our days were filled with achy feet, rain and sleet, snoring that kept us up at night, anxiousness at finding a place to spend the night. Yet, some of the experiences we had on the pilgrimage trail really validated the experience of God that was with us. However, some of those experiences were like that little whisper. May we see God in all the various moments in our lives.
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