He Is There

God comes to us in quiet and simple ways. He is there when the breeze rustles the palm fronds on a quiet, lazy, sunny afternoon. When the raindrops softly patter on the thirsty tin roofs of the poor, he is there. Look for him behind the laughing eyes of a child, or smell him in blossoming jasmine flowers on a clear and starry moonlit night. Hold his hand when you take your love by the hand, and feel the warmth of his tears as you console a grieving friend in your arms.    He is there in a baby's first cry and in the dying man's last sigh. When the waves break on the golden sands and the seagulls fly into the white clouds, when the church bells ring on an Easter Sunday inviting you to receive the sacred brad, he is there. Taste him when you bite into the yellow ripeness of a mango or when you quench your thirst with sweet water of a coconut. God comes to us only in quiet and simple ways. Never his presence in violence will you find; never look for him in words of anger or cowardly actions. His love and his peace surround us, above and beyond. And only in those simple, everyday things when we look with our eyes filled with his love can we find him.

© Yasemin Raymondo

Published: December 2008

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