The presence of the sacred

Darryl Tippens recently said, "The potential for the sacred is everywhere." Doesn't that apply to the Ashley Smith-Brian Nichols encounter?

In a beautiful essay in the March 28th issue of Time, Andrew Sullivan says, ...every day we have smaller, calmer chances to turn another's life around, to serve, to listen. How often do we simply not see what is in front of us? Sullivan quotes a Leonard Cohen song(also quoted in Patches of Godlight by Jan Karon): Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

I am reminded of John Wesley's admonition (which I think I have written about before--but it can't be used too many times):

Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
To all the people you can
As long as ever you can.