Touched By Heaven And Can’t Stop Talking About It

8 September 2026  Micah 5:1-4

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

“And He shall stand and feed His flock in the strength of the Lord….”

 (Micah 5:4)

Perhaps you have met some who have experienced what they think is a miracle, and they can’t shut up about it. They find every opportunity to talk about it, and they seem changed while they do. It is like, for that moment, they are touching something that fills them with something that doesn’t go quite into words, something that gives them a sense of joy, bliss, comfort, motivation, peace, and some other things that shimmer there, and are hard to put your finger on.

There are moments in history, as there are in individual lives, when the blinds are opened, and people become a little more willing to consider Jesus, to wonder if what He said could be true. We are living at one of those times right now.

Sometimes they get a little choked up, like the words to describe it can’t get out, but the tears can, and they aren’t tears of sadness, nor entirely of joy, but tears of that something else that won’t go quite into words.

It may be a good idea to take such people and their stories seriously, for it is entirely possible that they have been touched by heaven. Their miracle was that precious moment when heaven drew them close, and drew them in.

Moments like that were certainly the reason why so many people couldn’t resist Jesus. Everywhere He went, He touched people and things so that they thought heaven was only a breath away. He healed people in fantastic numbers. He said to Jairus’ daughter, and the son of the widow of Nain, and Lazarus, all of them certainly dead, “Get up,” and they did. He turned water into wine, walked on water, fed thousands from almost nothing, fed His disciples with Himself, and walked out of a tomb after being brutally killed. He couldn’t touch anything that didn’t whisper “Heaven” to people, shout “Heaven” to people. It is why some still can’t stop talking about Him.

It is also why Catholics talk so much about Mary, because heaven didn’t just touch her, but actually lived inside her for nine entire months, and thereafter Heaven Himself called her Mom. Some of us can’t get over that. “What must that be like,” we wonder, and the assurance we get from Jesus is that he intends that kind of experience for all of us. He prayed, “I in them, and You in Me, that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me, and have loved them even as You have loved Me” (John 17:23). We talk about Mary because we want to be where she is. In some it is such a powerful desire that they can’t stop talking about it. They go to Mass more and more because that is a place where heaven touches earth every day, every time that little bit of bread touches a believer’s hand.

Of course, there are people who resist Jesus. They seldom think about Him, never talk about Him, not in their joys or sorrows, not in trials or temptations. It may be because they have never known anyone who has drawn very close to heaven, and can’t shut up about it, someone to tell them that He is the one in whom heaven and earth come together, in whom humanity and divinity are totally reconciled, and He offers that reconciliation to everyone, in every sin and sadness, every trial and temptation.

There are moments in history, as there are in individual lives, when the blinds are opened, and people become a little more willing to consider Jesus, to wonder if what He said could be true. Such times in history have given us the Renaissance, and an end to slavery, countless missions and missionaries, and millions upon billions of conversions. We are living at one of those times right now. The blinds are open. In His mercy, let there be plenty of witnesses who can’t shut up about it.