Wednesday, August 01, 2007

These last few years have been a sort of Paul on the road to Damascus experience for me. But it wasn't the typical spiritual awakening that many of us think of when we think of Paul- blinded with scales and then made to see again with new eyes. It was like that, but I began to see was this world through the eyes of God...

From U2's "When I Look at the World"
When you look at the world
What is it that you see
People find all kinds of things
That bring them to their knees

So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world

When the night is someone else's
And you're trying to get some sleep
When your thoughts are too expensive
To ever want to keep

When there's all kinds of chaos
And everyone is walking lame
You don't even blink now do you
Don't even look away

So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world

I can't wait any longer
I can't wait 'til I'm stronger
Can't wait any longer
To see what you see
When I look at the world

I'm in the waiting room
I can't see for the smoke
I think of you and your holy book
When the rest of us choke"

To see the world the way our Creator does is both beautiful and burdensome. I can no longer ignore the great needs and greater injustices that create great need. Here is a short video about the great need in our world and what we can do about it.


Support missionaries, support programs that help the poor, go help, stay home and help.

Just do something.

Look at the world through His eyes.