Recognizing God in our midst

In today’s Gospel, John 14: 6-14,  Philip just does not get it.  Jesus has just said that to have seen Him is to have seen the Father. Yet Philip asks Jesus to show them the Father and that will be enough for them.  Do you ever run here and there looking for Jesus, looking for the right church, the right homily, the right book,  the right Bible, the right lecture, the right experience, the right person, the right priest and say: “Then I will know what I want to know.” “Then I will have enough.” “Then I will believe.”  And the fact is, God is right in front of our noses: in the people we meet, in the events of our days, within the very depths of our own being and we do not see Him, do not recognize Him, or do not know Him! Jesus works through us and through our neighbor every day. To have seen the good another does, to recognize the good God does through us,  is to see God, as truly as  seeing the work Jesus does is seeing the Father.