Thursday, July 29, 2010

Looking Up

Read a piece yesterday that I will not soon forget.

About a book written by Soon Ok Lee, a lady of faith who spent 6 years in a North Korean labor camp. She has written a book called EYES OF THE TAILLESS ANIMALS that chronicles her experiences and that of many.

"Lee's burden, on every page, is the pleading eyes of 140 inmates in the front row who on the day of her public release, dared to break the prison policiy forbidding Christians from raising their heads.

Their peculiar punishment is to never be allowed to look up.) But on this day they did...together.

So Lee writes:
"Whenever I got tired, I remembered their eyes and kept writing."
(World magazine, June 20, 2009 page 99)

Never allowed to look up.

What an incredible gift it is just to be able to do so....to "consider the heavens, the work of Your hands." To look at the trees, the stars, the clouds painting life across the skies.

And to look into the eyes of friends and see their love, and care and tenderness and attentiveness.

Looking up...what a gift.

Most of all...to consider our forever home with Jesus.

"When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus." (Matthew 17:8)

May we look up today
....and be sensitive in love and prayer to those with eyes cast down.

Selah.

David

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