The word of the day is “go.”  If we look below the surface of events, we discover that what seems to be happenstance is directed by an invisible hand.  In our reading of Acts 8:26-39, we hear the story of the conversion and baptism of an Ethiopian official who is returning from Jerusalem to his homeland in Gaza.  But Luke, the historian, unveils the divine guidance that moves the action forward to its conclusion in the eunuch’s baptism.  The historian writes,  “An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip and said, ‘Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza’” (OSB vs. 26).  And when Philip saw the chariot of the official, the Holy…

The word of the day is “go.”  If we look below the surface of events, we discover that what seems to be happenstance is directed by an invisible hand.  In our reading of Acts 8:26-39, we hear the story of the conversion and baptism of an Ethiopian official who is returning from Jerusalem o his homeland in Gaza.  But Luke, the historian, unveils the divine guidance that moves the action forward to its conclusion in the eunuch’s baptism.  The historian writes,  “An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip and said, ‘Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza’” (OSB vs. 26).  And when Philip saw the chariot of the official, the Holy…