Thursday, February 7, 2002
Thursday, February 7, 2002
But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of
more value than many sparrows.
Now, think of God. God has five billion children on this planet. That's a lot. When God looks at
humanity, does God see a faceless blob? Of course not. God, who is the Source of all
knowledge, does not see the general. God sees the specific. God knows you and me more
intimately than we know ourselves. We are not unknowns. We are not persons of no
importance. We are not garbage to be thrown out.
(Luke 12.7
NRSV)
Fosdick has noted that the more we know about any subject, the less we think in terms of the
general and the more we think in terms of the specific. For example, let's suppose my car
breaks down. I open the hood and I stare at a mass of wires, rubber and metal none of which
mean anything to me. I don't know anything about cars, so when I look under the hood, it is all
one big blob. But a trained mechanic will look under the hood of my car and he or she will not
see a blob or a mass. The mechanic will see the carburetor and the fuel pump, and he will
reach into a part of the motor that I do not even see and tighten a connecting wire. You see,
the more you know about cars, the less you think in terms of the blob, the mass, and the more
you think about individual parts.
Dear God, help me to look upon people in the garden of life with your personal love. Amen.
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