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How do we know if God is at work through our lives? Samuel Shoemaker describes it this way: “Something comes into our own energies and capacities and expands them. We are laid hold of by Something greater than ourselves. We can face things, create things, accomplish things, that in our own strength would have been impossible . . . The Holy Spirit seems to mix and mingle His power with our own, so that what happens is both a heightening of our own p0wers, and a gift to us from outside.” When God is active through us, we have our part to do. We get to cooperate with God in changing the world. We become conduits for the energies of His love for the purpose of transforming lives. As the Church, we are Christ’s body in the world. What a wonderful and awesome responsibility and privilege.