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Epiphany is welcome – as were the Magi. It is a perfect time for us to see, and as followers of Christ, make known that the incarnation of Jesus can still be visible, can still be touched, can still surprise.
Epiphany is not, by the way, a season of glossing over or being blinded or blindsided. God’s illumination causes us to see things – or have seen – that we would rather keep in the dark. Epiphany is the season of God-made knowing and God made manifest. It’s the season of noticing God in both small and large expressions and visions. It’s the season of announcing that God wishes there to be peace, reconciliation, kindness, redemption, repentance and release from anger, fear and resentment…as well as active ways of making each of these come to pass.
This year, during the season of Epiphany – let the God-made knowings commence. May you notice large and small and surprising manifestations of God in your life and in the world. And may you be a manifest presence of the same.
This message is excerpted from “We chalked the doorpost.” by Anna Madsen in the January/February 2022 Gather magazine.