My Eyes Are Up Here

"You can't really know anything about someone by looking at their [posterior]... unless that person is a sodomite." --anonymous

---...and most of us are not going to be looking that close.


My friend Kelly-Rae used to run a blog known as "my eyes are up here." [I wish she would still blog on it. *angry face*]. This was a statement on the simple vice that many of us face everyday: looking at people as objects. Her feeling (shared by many) is that one can tell a lot about a person by looking in their eyes.

I agree that there is a tremendous value to interacting with someone through sight and vision, but I often have to remind myself that it is better to include someone in that contact, and furthermore to learn who they are--not what they appear to be.

This applies to many more surface aspects about a person--besides that of appearance: experience for instance.

In any case, I'm working with God on looking at people differently then I sometimes do:as people who have desires, and choices just as I have--people with souls.

And part of that change in me is going to be looking at people's eyes.