Feedback requested: How have you sensed God through touch?

We're working in Fairmont, Minnesota toward a shared Lenten Series entitled Come to Your Senses: A Lenten Journey with God.  The idea is each preacher will share how God is sensed through our different experiences.  I've been asked to speak to experiencing God through the sense of touch.

I'm wondering how other people experience God through touch. 

What stories are you aware of that explore an experience of God's presence through touch?

I am also very curious what scripture you point to as you explain experiences of God's tangible--incarnate--activity touching you in the world.

thanks for your input. Pax, John. Published by John, an unlikely pastor at unlikelyconversation.blogspot.com unlikleyj.tumblr.com unlikelybanter.newsvine.com unlikelybanter.blogspot.com

How have you sensed God's touch?