Where is God?

Interfaith Celebration Gathering

Where is God?

Many of us look for God our whole lives. We search in different religions, follow gurus, and try out church after church, rarely finding God as we expect to see and know God.

We pray to God but do not see results because we often ask for our will to be done, not God’s will. God eludes us.

We look at all the awful things that are happening in our world and ask, “Where is God? How can God let these things happen?”

What we fail to realize is that God is everywhere. God lives in each of us. Sometimes we have to look rather hard to see God in others and sometimes God’s love and light shine through, leaving us in no doubt that God lives in others.

Rather than looking so hard at the awful things that happen in our world, we need to take a look at the good things that happen all around us. Even simple things like someone holding a door open for someone else to enter is God in action. A smile from one stranger to another, a helping hand when one is needed – all are God working through others.

Then there are groups like Men in Ministry, a diverse group of men from several churches who come together to build ramps for those in need of ramps. They built sixty-two ramps for people in need who could not afford ramps last year alone. God works through them in large ways to help others.

God’s love and light shine through them to others as they go about their work, each man functioning like a well-oiled cog in a ramp-building machine. Men like this inspire all of us to look within ourselves to find God within us, to connect with our God within and to reach out to others in meaningful ways.

The next time you are looking for God or you feel God has forsaken you, stop and do something nice for someone else. You will find God best by giving God’s love away to others. Where is God? God is in every loving thought and action you do for yourself and others.

May the God of love add a blessing to these humble words.

AMEN

If you would like to donate to Men in Ministry to help them help others, please contact me for their address. They do not charge for their labor, but they do need help with buying the materials for the ramps.