Another Set of Eyes

July 24, “Another Set of Eyes” Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8; 12-13 Matt. 13:10-17

We live in front of the flickering screen of our culture, seeing so much and yet so little. We are blind not because we are morally weak but because we are so saturated with the images of our consumer culture, that we no longer see what is real.

Dan is 20, he quit college and moved into an SRO because he is going to develop a new app and become rich; he is living now in poverty, going to strike it rich any day; Stepho, 30, admitted, ten years after I had him arrested for trying to assaulting and rob me that that was the first time he realized he was doing anything wrong; Sean last night said last night that last summer when he stabbed me it was the first time he realized drugs made him see things that were not there. There are more drug users in the housed population then in the homeless, and yet the homeless always take the hit for being “druggies”. We judge, we fail to listen, and we break relationships in the process, rather then walking with each other. We need another set of eyes to see our humanity, and walk with each other in our own brokenness. Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

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Even those at the top of pyramid, the rich white men who have the most privilege, are ironically enslaved. Planting seeds of fear and domination, they cannot reap inner peace, joy, love, and happiness.

The misery, drug addiction, suicide, and insanity rampant among the wealthiest families illustrate the obvious and inescapable truth that we are all related, and spiritual health, our source of happiness, requires us to live this truth in our daily lives. Dr. Will Tuttle