THOUGH we are often inhospitable, God keeps coming, and without regard for a designated season is born in mystery where the known and unknown dance on the edge of the miraculous. Angels appear in human disguise, a hallelujah chorus surrounding us in the fields of this common earth we walk on and watch from. Behind paper windows are symbols we don’t yet recognize, and our unlighted candles burst into flame on altars we haven’t acknowledged. Around us the breathing of the animals is slow and deep, their expectant, steady gaze directed toward the rough door that is just beginning to open. Each night, the stars signal a new journey, and all year long God keeps coming.

- Jeanne Lohmann
Alive Now

From “God Keeps Coming” by Jeanne Lohmann in ALIVE NOW(R), November/December 2000, p. 56. Edited by George R. Graham. Copyright © 2000 by The Upper Room