Emma Caite, our youngest daughter usually wakes up for a feeding around 5 am. This morning she followed her faithful routine. As I lay there nursing her, I began to ponder Johnny's and my discussion from last night.
He was talking to me about how he keeps finding God in places that he never thought to look before, and most people don't think to look, either. He finds God in the poor, the disfigured, the dying, the hungry. See, most folks think that because the 'least' on this planet are 'the least,' then God must have abandoned them.
Oh contraire, my friend! God is there! Isn't it like God to be backwards? His ways are not our ways. We try to find God at church. We seek him in our clean gatherings and among friends. Oh, how I think we have missed it.
If you truly want to find God. I mean, if you REALLY want to, then look in the unexpected places.
The passage in John 9 where the disciples ask Jesus about WHY a blind man was born blind hit me on the head like a stone as I was feeding Emma. In fact, it knocked me so hard, I couldn't go back to sleep and am sitting here now writing this article with only my monitor illuminating my room.
Jesus told them that no man sinned to cause his blindness, but that God is glorified, he is revealed, or he is seen (however you want to say it) in that blind man. Then Jesus heals him, but of course it's a Sabbath so he gets in trouble with the Pharisees who then accuse Jesus of 'not being Godly.'
My point here is that God is found with the least expected people. He is there. I think if you want to see him, you'll have to look where he is.
~Kate Brooks
Co-founder of A Future and a Hope
Home for orphans in Nakuru, Kenya East Africa
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