Finding the Divine in EVERY person

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY I watched with great amazement at the singing of Susan Boyle on the show Britain's got talent. The song is perfect, and the story is even better. Here is a women that is almost 48 years old, never married and never kissed, out of work with a learning disability. What this teaches us is never to be cynical, but to look for Jesus in every single person. So many times during the gospels over the last few weeks, the disciples don't recognize Jesus in their midst, and their downhearted because of it. But He is right there walking by there side. I always believe this, that Jesus is with me. But rarely do I look for him in others. Something else dawned on me about looking for Jesus in others, that it was exciting to try and find Him in the poor and downcast, to look for the spark of the Divine in the Susan Boyle's of the world, everyone loves the story of the music prodigy that is discovered homeless. But this is only 1/2 the lesson (a very important 1/2), the other 1/2 is finding Jesus in our enemies, in the people in our lives who we dislike, or find troubling and annoying. Mother Teresa's favorite vers from Scripture was, "as you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me," whenever she would hear someone say "you did for me," she would correct them, because there was such an enormous difference between doing something for Jesus, and actually doing something to Him.
That's the goal, to look for Jesus present in everyone we meet, and living out what that means, not gossiping against people, not looking down on others, not judging others, but being excited about finding the spark of the Divine in those around us. There's a story about a preacher that was dejected about the troubles in the world, and complained to his pastor, asking why God never did anything about these problems, and the pastor said, "He has, He created you," When God formed each of us, He had the love, excitement and mystery in His heart about what our life would mean to the world. Here's to hoping that we never lose hope about our own dreams, and we constantly look for the greatness present in the lives of others;