Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

As many of you know, we were blessed to have time with our grandson, William, over the past month.  I love playing singing games with him, and one of the games he loves is Eensy Weensy Spider.  He would be enthralled as I would sing this song with him while doing the motions.  And, as soon as I would finish, even though he only says a few words, through his body language and actions he would always indicate he wanted me to do it again and again.  It was as though he was saying, “Do it again, Grandma, do it again!”  This is a very human trait for us as people.  After experiencing something that is pleasing and entertainingly astonishing, we frequently want to experience it again and again.  To paraphrase what Kim O’Brien said in our Tuesday Bible study, when we see a shiny object, we want to see it again and again. In last week’s gospel reading from John, the 5,000+ people who had come to see Jesus had, in a manner of speaking, experienced seeing that shiny object when Jesus performed an astonishing miracle!