Two Prayers for Sight















My friend, JB, suggested that I start a blog as a way to work through my thoughts, perhaps in the company of a few friends. I think it'll be a helpful practice to try writing in a format that will help me to buck the internal editor in me, who speaks with such a loud, annoying voice. And I think I need it. I've got a lot to process these days.

So here goes... Thanks, JB!

I start with an image of one of the places that I've set my sights on of late, a photo I took in Cambodia when I visited for the first time in January. It was a beautiful, cool morning - such a refreshment after a week of dust, heat and reminders of the awful things that happened in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge. One of the prayers that I've prayed almost obsessively for the last ten years is that God would teach me to see. I hope that I'll be able to see His beauty even when all that seems apparant is hopelessness and despair. So I put this photo in as a reminder to myself that God remembers these prayers.

My other well-worn prayer is a borrowed one - from the apostle Paul. Simply that God would reveal to me, my beloved ones and the world all the vast, crazy, unimaginable dimensions of His love.

I'm about to set off on a journey to Taiwan and Cambodia, in hopes of clarifying what seems to me a call to overseas missions work. But when it's all been said and done, whatever roads I end up taking, I think what I'm really after has been spoken already in these two prayers.