If I told anybody what I sensed might be happening here, they’d laugh.<\/p>\n
So let them laugh.\u00c2\u00a0 Finding God in the ordinary is a way of seeing the world.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a willingness to suspect God when no other fingerprints match.\u00c2\u00a0 When we encounter the sublime, terrible, inexplicable, we can stop silent in our tracks and whisper the words of Jacob as he awoke from his ladder dream:\u00c2\u00a0 “Surely the Lord was in this place and I did not know it.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Or we can shrug it off as a weird coincidence.<\/p>\n
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