Again the beauty of our religion is that we worship a God who wanders with the people. Fr. Sahayadas Fernando sdb, who has come to Becchi to teach Moral Theology, reflecting over the readings of the day 4 July: Gen 28:10-22a and Mt 9:18-26, contends that the presence of our God is a Wandering Presence. Connecting it further to the resistance of God to the intention of King David to build a temple for Him, Fr. Sahayadas further noted that probably our God cannot be held in a temple. This is evident in our God’s promise to Jacob in the first reading “See, I am with you and I will keep you safe wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land and not leave you until I have done what I have promised” (Gen 28: 15) and experienced in Jesus, the God with us, accompanying the grief stricken father of the deceased daughter (Mt 9:19). How wonderful is to have a God who wanders with those who seek his presence!
How true is Rabindranath Tagore in his exhortation,
“Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!
Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?
Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground
and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.
He is with them in sun and in shower,
and his garment is covered with dust.
Put of thy holy mantle and even like him
come down on the dusty soil!” Gitanjali
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