Red-Stained Glasses

Sometimes I just wish I could see the world and all people living in it from Jesus’ eyes and not my own. That is something that I long for so badly; to see people with eyes of love. But not surprisingly this is very difficult to do on my own. There is no possible way that I could love someone who seems unlovable in my own strength; I need Christ to do a powerful work in me and help me to see this world from His eyes and not my own. A while back I wrote some sort of poem about this, and its funny because just now Im realizing that this is something that i still struggle with. I want to see people for who they are and for what’s inside; and love them for that. The poem is called Red-Stained Glasses.

Stuff that consumes. Words that fume. They fill up this space-so limited and raw. They’re all just words, in a moment of time, that give definition to who we are inside. But don’t be so quick. Just sit back and listen. To the secrets of a person, being unleashed without notice. Because the appleseed’s there; Please take one more bite. It’s a selfish waste, the way our bodies move with such haste; passed the street-passerbyers, and the missing-kid flyers. But we’re all just peoples, thinking life’s our own feat. No one ever stops to consider, the person to their right, with pain just the same, and a heart just as strong. So, it’s the frail words that lead me inside, a place far removed, from this world so captured by creative legends. Oh, where can I buy a pair of red-stained glasses? Those which let me see passed the dirt and through the fog. Because beneath the wealth, and the drama; beneath the guilt and the gossip; beneath the fear and rebellion; lie so many different people. Weak, yet so deep; empty, yet searching. Oh, where can I buy a pair of red-stained glasses?

I mean really. What if God just gave us each a pair of glasses that were covered in his blood…so that when we put them on we saw people the way that He sees them-through eyes of love?! That would be fantastic. But that’s what we learn to do here on this earth; to love and see people the way that Christ does.