In the introduction to the mass this morning we here presentation of child Jesus in the temple. In the temple there are Simeon and Anna who have an insight that they are about to encounter someone special. And when they do meet him the RECOGNISE him.
It is interesting to know it that neither of them had a photo of him or description of his parents or the type of entry he would make in order to identify the child. Yet they did recognise him.
I guess this is what reading the 'signs of the times' means. To be able to recognise God in the regular, routine events of life. To be able to identify him in the hundred and one things that we do everyday of our life. One can read this presentation as a once in a lifetime event or have the wisdom to understand it as a daily occurrence.
Like Rabindranath Tagore says in his poem, "He comes, he comes, he ever comes."
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