God can be experienced.  These encounters may come in transforming moments.  We crave these times as the standard of what we want and expect from God.  Remember though, God is as with us in the daily walk as in the sanctuary.  We experience Him in the valleys of grief, sorrow and disappointment.  We experience Him in His silence.  Know that these experiences are even more shaping for you than the high moments.

“Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.” Genesis 18:1 (NASB)

You are reading from the book, “Staying on the Way”, by H. Lamar Smith