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What God Sees
During Advent, members of the A Nun’s Life community will be posting reflections on the Jesse Tree and the O Antiphons.
Day 11 :: Samuel and Jesse written by Regina
But God say to Samuel, “Pay no attention to appearance and height; I have rejected height, I have rejected him. God does not see as mortal sees; mortals see only appearances but God sees into the heart.” I Samuel 16:7
Dura Europos, Samuel anoints David, 244
It’s happened to all of us. A friend introduces us to a new boyfriend and after the encounter, you’re puzzled. Where exactly is the attraction coming from? You don’t see it. “I don’t know what she sees in him,” you think. Yet your girlfriend sees something that brings her joy, something that satisfies a place in her soul. She sees deeper than you.I’m sure Samuel, Jesse and David’s brothers were thinking pretty much the same thing when Samuel anointed David. Imagine Samuel, looking at this youngest boy, ruddy and disheveled, thinking, “How can this boy be King? I hope you know what you’re doing, God.” Imagine David, summoned from the flocks, oil poured over his head, thinking, “What in the world is this old man after?” Imagine the brothers, thinking, “Why him?”Over and over we here sentiments like this echoed through Scripture, ordinary human beings questioning God, wondering what He’s thinking, wondering if they are up to the task being asked of them. Yet God simply says, “Don’t worry. I know the score. I’ve got this.”I rejoice that when God looks at us human beings, She sees so much more in us than what we see, that God sees into our hearts, and says, “I want YOU, beloved Creation. I made you, I love you, and we’re going to do marvelous things together.”I rejoice that God believes in me.
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Even ME! There is a wonderful poem I wrote into one of my Bibles. I love it’s sense of surprise. It goes:
Song of the Pariah, the Barber from Ancient Buddhist Literature
The Spirit of blessing has passed before my house,
the house that belongs to me, the barber!
I ran, he turned, he waited for me,
Me! the barber!
I said: “May I speak to you, O lord?”
And he said: “Yes”
And I said, “May I follow you?”
And he said: “Yes”
Even me, the barber!
And I said: “May I stay near you, O lord?”
And he said, “You may.”
Even me, the poor barber!