Our ordinary lives are touched by the divine far more than we know. Yet at certain moments the realisation breaks through vividly and perhaps dramatically, and we know for certain that God is here “It was dark and I was taking the washing off my line. The lights streamed into the darkness from the kitchen, where my three girls were sitting around the table, cups of tea in hand, chatting about their day. I watched the interaction between them, saw their animated discussion and knew that there, right in the heart of my home, God was too. A beautiful presence that set the place into radiance.”Paula, a friend, recognised the incarnate presence in a glance into her own home. In one ordinary domestic moment, she realised that the Christmas mystery is revealed through a kitchen wind