It's a beautiful and chilly August morning in 2002 and asI sit here at my computer reading my emails before I head out to work, I'm gazing at a picture on the cover of a Morning Star Journal. The glossy cover is a picture of a young woman sitting across from Jesus and they are both on the ground - and a stick is laying beside them. Words are not necessary and it is obvious this is the woman who was about to be stoned for being caught in the act of adultry. You know the story - Jesus steps in and draws something in the dirt and says "let he who is without sin - cast the first stone".

I thought about his response and also the reaction of the crowd. Who was in the crowd? ....Angry men?.... Teenagers? .... Perhaps self-righteous women?....The Scriptures don't tell us. Nor do they tell us what He drew in the soil - for the eyes of all to behold.

What I see when I gaze upon the artist's conception of this woman, is an ashamed person who has been publicly humiliated and traumatized by a crowd of Jews who still exist under the law of Moses.
And then I see a loving and forgiving man who does not see her act, but rather; sees her heart.

What I want for my life is Jesus' heart. And I want His eyes. I want to see others as He sees them - not as they appear to my carnal eyes or in the eyes of the world.

I remember a number of years ago a young girl in our congregation standing up front and singing a beautiful solo - "She has her Father's eyes............."

That's what I want. I want to see a lost and dying world and see them without pre-judging - without reacting to their sinful and rude and angry and wounded ways. And I want to take what I see and turn it for good - and pray for that person and be a light in their lives - someone who makes a difference because I accepted them right where they are at and loves them for who they are and for what I know they can become. I think that's Jesus' style. And I want to walk in Jesus' style. And like the moon - I want to be "out there" and reflect the Son's light in the darkness of this age.

Like the song says, " Oh to be like thee! Oh to be like thee! Blessed Redeemer - pure as thou art! Come in Thy sweetness - come in Thy fullness. Stamp Thine own image - deep on my heart......."