On this third Sunday of Lent, we are invited to become aware of God’s presence through living things like bushes and fig ...

Let the burning bush represent any liminal moment ... Sometimes that requires our return, in memory, to days long past. I am not saying that recollection can remove tragedies or restore losses.

“It’s like the burning bush in the Torah,” Levine Grater said ... And yet, amid the ash and heartbreak, he searches for the light. “I am houseless, but I am not homeless,” he said.

He had no assurances, only God’s promise that he would know God’s presence in hindsight: “You will know I am with you when ...