Dear Lord, your apostle Thomas wanted to see you and touch your wounds. He was not satisfied with the enthusiastic words of his friends. He wanted to experience your presence with his own senses.
How I can understand that desire! Haven't I been praying to you often and fervently to let me see you and touch you? And what do you say? "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."
Are you asking me to stay in the darkness of faith and surrender to you that feverish and impatient desire for a direct, sensible experience? Are you inviting me to live my life in simple faith, obedient to the witnesses who saw you after your death and who based their teaching on the fact that they indeed saw you alive?
O Lord, I believe; help my unbelief. Amen.
(A Cry For Mercy: Prayers From Genesee, Henri J. M. Nouwen, 2002)
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