Calvin Synod Herald, 2016 (117. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2016-07-01 / 7-8. szám
10 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD calm, clothed and in his right mind. • The woman at Jacob’s well in John’s Gospel is seen by her neighbors as sexually promiscuous, worthy only to be shunned, but she is seen by Jesus as a worthy conversationalist and a useful witness to the good news. In other words, when we see each other and many others through Christ’s eyes we see amazing value and incredible possibility. The poet, Gerrard Frost, wrote: I walked today where Jesus walked. 1 didn’t meet a number Or smile at a statistic Or laugh at a cipher, I didn i talk about the weather Or swap a story Or exchange a handclasp with a case Or a chart, I met people, people like you and me And Jesus, Yes, I kept meeting Jesus; The streets were full of him. Installation Of The Conference Council The service of Installation and Oath of Office was administered by Rt. Rev. Koloman K. Ludwig and Rt. Rev. Louis Medgyesi. Another poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, wrote: Christ plays in ten thousand places Lovely in limbs and lovely in eyes not his To the Father, through the features offolk s faces. What a revolutionary point of view. It breaks of the barriers of race, class and gender. Others put labels on - Enemy! Outsider! Intruder! In Christ there’s a new point of view - Human! Created by God! Recipient of Christ’s forgiveness from the cross! “Idealistic,” someone says. Yes, of course. This is the vision of a new creation. It sees this tired old world through fresh eyes. So we are invited to take another look at the person with whom we have bad chemistry, the person who rubs us the wrong way, the person who gets in our way in one manner or another. That agnostic writer, George Bernard Shaw, had it right in “Pygmalion” (later, “My Fair Lady”): The great secret, Eliza, is not having good manners . . . but in having the same manners for all souls, in short, behaving as if you were in heaven where there are no third class carriages and one soul is as good as another. In such seeing is believing. In such seeing is to be with Christ. In such seeing is to see the human face divine. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, world to its end. Amen. David B. Bowman
