What do
you see?
This is an important question.
There is a difference between looking and seeing. We all look but we do not all
see.
On occasion I have had people say
to me as I am observing them, "What are you looking at?" They might
be asking the wrong question. They should be asking, What do you see?"
There are a few people in my life who do ask me this latter question and we
have a serious discussion about my observations.
While you and I walk around or
drive around every day, what do we see?
Here is Fr. Richard Rohr's thoughts
on seeing:
Can you see the
image of Christ in the least of your brothers and sisters? This is Jesus’ only description of the
final judgment (Matthew 25). But some say, “They smell. They’re a nuisance.
They’re on welfare. They are a drain on our tax money.” Can we see Christ in
all people, even the so-called “nobodies” who can’t or won’t play our game of
success? When we can see the image of God where we don’t want to see the image
of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
Richard’s
words echo the words of Mother Teresa as she saw the poor and dying:
“Each one of them is Jesus in
disguise.”
What do you see?
Ronald Friesen © 2018
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