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from Melanie Craver's devotional today:
In his work I and Thou, brilliant European thinker Martin Buber speaks of how we can see a person as simply a material object, something to look at, an “it,” or we can look into a person and enter the sacredness of their humanity so that they become a “Thou.”
…I have an old hippie friend…One day, he said to me, “Jesus never talked to a prostitute.” I immediately went on the offensive: “Oh, sure he did,” and whipped out my sword of the Spirit and got ready to spar. Then he just calmly looked me in the eye and said “Listen, Jesus never talked to a prostitute because he didn’t see a prostitute. He just saw a child of God he was madly in love with.”
When we have new eyes, we can look into the eyes of those we don’t even like and see the One we love.
…No one is beyond redemption. And we are free to imagine a revolution that sets both the oppressed and the oppressor free.
The irresistible revolution; living as an ordinary radical by Shane Claiborne
In his work I and Thou, brilliant European thinker Martin Buber speaks of how we can see a person as simply a material object, something to look at, an “it,” or we can look into a person and enter the sacredness of their humanity so that they become a “Thou.”
…I have an old hippie friend…One day, he said to me, “Jesus never talked to a prostitute.” I immediately went on the offensive: “Oh, sure he did,” and whipped out my sword of the Spirit and got ready to spar. Then he just calmly looked me in the eye and said “Listen, Jesus never talked to a prostitute because he didn’t see a prostitute. He just saw a child of God he was madly in love with.”
When we have new eyes, we can look into the eyes of those we don’t even like and see the One we love.
…No one is beyond redemption. And we are free to imagine a revolution that sets both the oppressed and the oppressor free.
The irresistible revolution; living as an ordinary radical by Shane Claiborne