We See Him Everywhere!

In the Broadway Musical “1776,” a scene opens with John Adams crying out,

“Is anybody there?
Does anybody care?”

In one sense, we “are but tiny dots on the edge of a star cluster, in a universe that has millions of star clusters just like it.” But rather than dwell on this kind of evidence of our unimportance or insignificance, we “marvel at a God who cares for each of us as if He had nothing else to care for.”1

“Know that I am with you always,” the Risen Christ says to His disciples in today’s Gospel Lesson (Mt. 28:20).

The lyric in “Nowhere Men,” a very popular song of the sixties, includes these lines:

He’s a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Nowhere man, please listen,
You don’t know what you’re missin’.

None of us are strangers to the experience of feeling like a “Nowhere” man or woman. When things…