Finding God in Everything

Finding God in everything is one of the challenges that St. Ignatius would give to those who follow his Spiritual Exercises - find God in all things.  It's a lesson that Naaman learned in our first reading, when he comes to be cured from leprosy and finds that the instructions that the prophets gave him don't meet his standards - simply to go to a river and be washed.  He's encouraged to do so, and finally gets cured.

Do we sometimes look for God in the thunder of the world or the bright lights of the world, and miss His presence in the every day events of our lives?  In our awareness of nature, our relationships with others, even in the difficulties in life, how do we find God in everything?

Monsignor Daniel Hoye