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Measuring God’s presence

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Yesterday I passed a cemetery, which my toddler calls a park, and noticed a woman standing at the foot of a grave. Red flower topped the stone. With her hands folded in front, she stood half turned as if wanting to leave yet a longing made her unable. Later I pondered the nature of God’s presence as I thought of the woman all alone in front of her buried loved one. Not seeing God there too, I wonder if God needs a body, becoming evident in the encounter with another. Or maybe God is invisible everywhere, refusing to be confined to a single entity.

Today, I will meet some folks I’ve managed to put off meeting for years. They have the same condition as my 3-year-old that has left him with some disfigurement from a tumor and bone deformities. Fear has kept me from meeting up with others with the same condition, thinking it would be one more nail in the coffin confirming my son’s diagnosis. So I’ve walked a solitary road managing my son’s medical battles.

How to measure the immeasurable: God as sheer presence with the woman, with the dead, with the incurable, with me.

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Lace M. Williams
Lace M. Williams
Dr. Lace M. Williams has spent much of her life studying and seeking theological answers to the questions of what it means to be alive, to be human, to be made in the image of the Creator and to acquire beliefs and the language to express those beliefs. With B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Scripture, Doctrine and Theology, Williams is interested in examining the biblical languages and writers through the lens of speech act theory. For fun, she spends time with her amazing son, her hero. For delight, she looks to the Triune God, loved ones and nature.

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