In his book Who Needs God, Rabbi Harold Kusner responds to why God is so hard to find by asking us to rethink the question. Perhaps we are disappointed because we are looking so hard in the wrong place, and perhaps we are taking the task too literally. Kusner alerts us to the view that Psalm 146, for example, which tells us that God secures justice for those who are wronged, gives bread to the hungry, and restores sight to the blind, is not really a description of how God spends His time. Rather, if we concentrate on the context of each sentence, we can recognize that securing justice is a divine act, a manifestation of spiritual presence in human activity, whether the acts of service are feeding the hungry, supporting the poor, or comforting the sick and the lonely. In short, "They are not things that God does; they are things that we do." Similarly the sixteenth-century Catholic mystic Teresa of Avila said, "God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these he works."
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