What I See and Don't See, I Must Believe!

When I write on the blog I always want to write something profound! Something that will allow you to see, taste and smell everyday life here. The photos help but there is always just something missing from them, as they do tell a story but there is an element that is missing. Like you believe but you can't believe unless you see it. Soooo...after much consideration here is what I ponder today.

I know it is a windy day, not that I can see it, but the trees are waving and my hair is blowing and the dust makes little tornado's all over the city. I can't see my breath but I know I am alive, so it must be there. I can't see my muscles but they hurt when I carry two 5 litre bottles of water up five flights of steps.

What I can see is 5 children everyday playing on the swings with no parental supervision. What I do see is the same man standing on crutches begging for money a the bakery. What I do see is 3 girls who got a bath and clean clothes one day and then next they are wearing filthy rags and don't have any shoes. What I do see is those same 2 girls carrying a baby around on their hip begging for food. One more thing, 2 people, a man and woman living at the dumpster, who take very good care of their area and are happy to take your trash and sort through it and feed the 5 or so dogs living there as well.

What I don't see is if the bread and food I give the kids on the swings makes a difference. What I don't see is the money and bread I gave the man the day before makes a difference, because he is back the next day. What I don't see is that the clean clothes from the day before made a difference as they were back dumpster diving by the evidence of the clothes the next day. What I don't see is the the 2 people who live in the dumpster area moving any time soon.

So as I ponder the things I see and the things I don't, it seems the things I see I want to change and the things I don't I just believe it is there. Just like the wind, the breath and the muscles I don't need to change those things, I just believe and then know they are there.

So maybe instead of me trying to change things I should just believe and have faith that it is already there and know the seeds being planted in bread, clothes and water are changing from the inside and I just can't see it but I have to believe it is there. Even if we can't see the results of what is going on in our lives because of what we do, can we just believe that it is already there? It is by faith!

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

and

By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.

Hebrews 11: 1 and 3