evidence

 

Love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness (or generosity) and gentleness and faithfulness and self-control are not natural, and we need to stop pretending that they are.

People are brutal, towards other people and towards themselves. The UK statistics on domestic violence, and suicide, and poor mental health reveal this; before ever we get to shootings by quasi- law enforcement officers, or drones and missiles fired, in other parts of the world.

Love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness (or generosity) and gentleness and faithfulness and self-control are supernatural—evidence of God with us; and for us; and, through us, for those around us; which the Church calls the Holy Spirit—and we need to start naming them as such, and inviting people to respond.

If you have ever known any of these, you have experienced the touch of God upon your life.