Mtr Taylor Devine

Dear Friend,

In today's Office Gospel Jesus asks John's Disciples "What are you looking for?" Without really answering they jump to wanting to know where he is staying, they want to stick close to him. He invites them, 'Come and see.' Following John the Baptist they had been prepared to look out for the Messiah and now that his prophecy has been fulfilled we get the sense that they can't look away, and they can't keep to themselves what they are seeing. In our reading for tomorrow Philip echoes Jesus' words, "Come and see" to Nathanael. In the zeal and excitement of their new excitement they hang on every word and they share with those closest to them what they see. As the road gets harder, as the Way of Jesus becomes more clear, we see the Disciples have the wide range of responses and reactions that we know from Scripture and in our own lives. They are invited and transformed and renewed and challenged.

They are given new sight about the world and new ways to engage it as followers of Jesus. Debie Thomas writes "To “come and see” is to approach all of life with a grace-filled curiosity, to believe that we are holy mysteries to each other, worthy of further exploration. To come and see is to enter into the joy of being deeply seen and deeply known, and to have the very best that lies hidden within us called out and called forth." To come and see where Jesus is today is very likely going to have to do with your neighbor, to the mystery that they are, and to the way you are called to follow Jesus in this day. "What are you looking for?" quickly turns to "Here-see with my eyes" for the Disciples. May we learn to see with eyes of Jesus' love along the way.

In Christ,
Mtr Taylor