Welcome to today's encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

Today's reading titled, Through Thick and Thin, was written by Cindy Casper.

On January 28, 1986, the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after takeoff.

In a speech of comfort to the nation, President Reagan quoted from the poem, High Flight,

in which John Gillespie McGee, a World War II pilot, had written of the high, untrespassed

sanctity of space and the sense of putting out

his hand to touch the face of God.

Although we can't literally touch God's face, we sometimes experience a stunning sunset or a place

of meditation in nature that gives us an overwhelming sense that he's near. Some people call

these moments thin places. The barrier separating heaven and earth seems to grow a little

thinner. God feels a little closer. The Israelites may have experienced a thin place as they

sense the nearness of God in the desert

wilderness. God provided a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to lead them

through the desert. When they were staying in the camp, Exodus chapter 40 says,

The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their travels, they knew

God was with them. As we enjoy the incredible beauty of God's creation, we grow conscious that

he's present everywhere. As we talk with him in prayer, listen to him, and read the scriptures.

We can enjoy fellowship with him anytime and anywhere.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 40, verses 34 through 38.

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle,

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