Lost and Found by Jill Carattini

Take about 5 minutes to read this snippets version of The previous day's 'A Slice of Infinity'. Follow up by reading TODAY'S SLICE and forward any comments on your faith journey.

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. (Matthew 13:44-45)

"Slow was I, Lord, too slow in loving you. To you, earliest and latest beauty, I was slow in love. You were waiting within me while I went outside me, looking for you there, misshaping myself as I flung myself upon the shapely things you made. You were with me all the while I was not with you, kept from you by things that could not be except by being in you. You were calling to me, shouting, drumming on deaf ears. You thundered and lightninged, piercing my blindness." - Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. Garry Wills, (New York: Penguin, 2006), 234.

A Slice of Infinity Snippets:
Like the disciples on the mount who fell on their faces as Jesus became "like the sun" and "as white as light," it seems God brings us again to that place where we are awed by his glory, his goodness or mercy--his fearful existence. And like the disciples, like Job and Isaiah, we are reminded that we are in the presence of the Father in all his glory. Whether we are aware of it or not He is always near, his glory declared day after day, the work of his hands proclaimed night after night.

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