Where God Finds Us.....

I believe and feel that is alone is one of my most enduring lessons---that where life presses on you, there you will find God looking for you.  Pressure points!  That's what we do anything in our power to deny, cover up, to release the pain from.  It's a lesson that comes from the crown of thorns.  On Good Friday, when Jesus' scalp was punctured by the razor sharp thorns, there in that pain and blood was the love of the Father for the Son and the love of the Son for the Father.  I owe this insight to Bp. John Coburn from the Diocese of Massachusetts--A life to Live, A Way to Pray.  In his book, the bishop is clear indeed.  Where does life press on you?  That's where God comes looking for you.  And why?  because it is the place where you know and feel in your heart of hearts that you are dependent on another Life that upholds you.  Could it be that Son was upheld int he Father's love on the way to the cross?  The same way we are upheld now!