One of the important "faith questions" we chaplains often hear is: "Has anyone ever seen God?" If in your faith journey you have asked this question, you are not alone. People have asked this question as long as there have been people to ask. One boy I know asked this question in a very direct way- "Has anyone seen God, like I'm looking at and seeing you as we speak?"  I had to admit that I didn’t know anyone who had. In fact even John, the evangelist, admitted as much. In his gospel he writes, "No one has ever seen God" (John 1:18). Indeed, you can make the case that God is expecting a lot from us - to go on believing while at the same time knowing there is little possibility of seeing God this side of the grave. But if God were completely and absolutely hidden from us, belief in God would probably be humanly impossible. I would submit though that God really has given us some clues about His presence. First, there is the Bible, which is the main source of what Christians believe about God. Indeed, year after year, the Bible continues to be the number one selling book, so it is clear men and women are not losing their passion for learning about God. Assuredly, the Bible is only one of the ways God makes his presence known to us. Nature has always been another important indicator and proof of God's presence and majesty. The beauty of nature speaks profoundly of the providence and goodness of God. A Dominican sister that I know says, "there is no shortage of wonders around us, but only a shortage of wonderers." Then there is the story of Edith Stein, a German Jew who had been an atheist in her teenage years, but who later turned to Christianity. Edith became a nun and later died in a German concentration camp. Her heroic example led to her canonization as a saint. In one account she was asked by a young lady, "When shall I see God?" Edith answered simply, "When you open your eyes!" Indeed, I guess we too easily overlook the chance of seeing God in the most obvious place of all - in our fellow human beings. The Book of Genesis clearly says God made the first man and woman in His image. Truly, of all of God's creation, humans are able to reflect God more than anything else. Of course, we are only too aware that humans are not the perfect image of God. There is so much hate and selfishness in the world to show that we are often a murky image.   What if we truly focused on a good image? Most of us have heard the story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who lived in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Living in fear in the attic of a Dutch family for most of the war years, she kept a personal diary. We might expect that her diary would contain a lot of hatred for the Nazis who were the cause of her suffering and misery. Instead she wrote, "In spite of everything, I still think that people are good at heart." Maybe if we could see with Anne Frank’s eyes, we could truly say we have seen God. .