How is your day shaping up? Are you really busy? I am sure most are like me and the answer to the second question is “Yes, extremely!” We tend to fill our time – sometimes with good things and sometimes with less than the best.
While I encourage effectiveness and accomplishment, I am reminded this morning that my busyness must not prevent me from seeing – seeing God at work around me – seeing God at work in me – and especially, seeing the person right in front of me.
So often, our cordial greeting and inquiry about how someone is doing is reduced to a formality. The question I asked our church family this past Sunday was, “Do we see people?” Are we aware of the folks around us – truly aware?
In order to show the love of Christ, we must see people. And we must see them as God sees them. There is an old rabbinic tradition that says that when we encounter another person, we should envision a processional of angels going before them shouting, “Make way, make way, make way the image and likeness of God!”
How would our world be different if we saw each and every person we meet as the the image and likeness of God?
Practice seeing today and let me know what you see!
Clay in the Hands 
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