God makes a home

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Jesus’ promise that he and God will come make a home with us sounds like good news to me.

Our so-called secular age purports to have disenchanted us of our pre-modern superstitions. Many of us find God’s stark absence from our daily affairs to be our most prominent experience of the divine. Like Moses, we merely glimpse the back of a God passing before our eyes, a God whose countenance remains forever out of sight.