I cannot seem to get the sentence uttered by Jesus out of my head. "Do you see this woman?"
Read it a thousand times, dissected the surrounding events and landscape, but still missed the point. "Do you see this woman?"
Seeing with our eyes is different than seeing with our heart, and I'm going to try and do the latter more often.
The heroin addict on the front page of the Anchorage Daily News who can't seem to come clean.
A staggering man on the corner of A and Benson who draws a cross on the slab of cardboard he holds up in front of traffic, asking for money.
My own frightened, impulsive teenager who struggles every single day to do the right thing and often fails.
Do I see them? Do I provide them with even the minutae of grace they deserve and God provides, but too often I do not?
Do you?
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Funny, isn't it, how one phrase can change everything? That moment in Tammy's sermon two weeks ago 'Do you see the woman?' has shaped everything for the past two weeks. Mother Teresa's 'I see Christ in every eye.' is a cousin to Tammy's realization. So simple. So essential. Thanks, Erin. tl
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