We Would See Jesus

I have learned, and am still learning each and every day...

that encountering another human being is as close to seeing God

as I will ever get, this side of heaven.


The one who stands right in front of me,

who has no substitute,

who can never be replaced,

whose heart holds things for which there is no language,

whose life is an unsolved mystery... Is made in the image of God.



The supreme religious challenge

Is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

May I encounter that of God today in who I meet.



Some Greeks came to the Festival in Jerusalem with a request to Philip, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” John 12:20


[Some themes of this meditation were drawn from a first reading of Barbara Brown Taylor’s newest book, An Altar in the World, A Geography of Faith, HarperCollins, New York 2009.]