Sometimes the touch comes as a feeling of unexplainable peace when we are struggling to go back to sleep at 2:00 a.m. Sometimes it is a warm glow that seems to surround us in the midst of the chaos of our lives. Sometimes it’s the note or phone call from a friend. Sometimes it is the realization that we are not alone, that others have been right where we are and survived, even thrived, thereafter.

When we have experienced Christ Jesus’ touch in the dark times of our lives and felt his perfect love casting out all our fear, we are called to reach out to those around us who are in need of the compassionate touch of the Divine, to incarnate God’s love to them through the power of Christ Jesus’ healing presence dwelling in our hearts.

March 2, 2014 Epiphany Last, Year A Exodus 24:12-18, Psalm 2, II Peter 1:16-21, Matthew 17:1-9