"God is Already Here"
When I think about your writing, I think about the introduction to your book Finding God in Unexpected Places, where you talk about a South African woman named Joanna who began a prison ministry that radically transformed one of her country's most violent prisons. When you asked her how she did it, she told you: "Well, of course, Philip, God was already present in the prison. I just had to make Him visible."
Yes, I love that line because that's what we're called to do as Christians. That's kind of like pulling up the blinds again, isn't it? God is already here in the world. We just have to point Him out to people. So many people have the idea that you have to leave joy, leave life, and go into the house and wait to die like Sister Lychen. But God is already here.
