November 23 1 Peter 1:8 Although you have not seen him you love him; and even thought you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with ...

... an indescribable and glorious joy.

This letter, written toward the end of the first century, was addressed to the first generation of Christians who had not been alive during the lifetime of Christ. The eyewitnesses were dying off, but the next generation was alive and on fire with the Good News. They saw him in the same way we do—in each other, in the poor, in the bread and wine, in the music, in the body.