The experience of Israel also shows God's presence found in the midst of our daily living. God is meeting us in our history, in the fabric of our lives. We do not need to escape time and history in order to experience God. God is with us where we are. The feast of Theophany celebrates the manifestation of the Holy Trinity as Christ is immersed in the Jordan River.
Love has more power that death.
Several years ago I visited a young woman in a Philadelphia hospital. I are good friends. I was meeting Father Ted's only sister, Sophie, for the first time. I felt, however, that we had been friends forever since Father Ted spoke so often to each of us about the other. The circumstances were very difficult.