One God and Father of all.

From today's reading: "There is one body and one Spirit. . . one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all." Ephesians 4:4-6 Today's lessons are those appointed for St.Simon and St. Jude (sometimes referred to as Thaddaeus), two of the less known apostles. Very little is know about them, but it is believe that they may have traveled together as missionaries to the area of Persia and been martyred there.

These words are used as the beginning of the baptismal rite in the Episcopal church. If we are to believe what is written in Genesis that God created all the universe, everything that is, then we have to believe that he is one and I believe it follows that he is in all things as stated above - he is "through all and in all." He has not limited our ability to reason and to seek him out through our understanding of the world. He reaches out to us through all means, and yet we often underestimate his ability to speak and act in the world he created. Our God is above all, and in all and and works through all things to make himself known to us.