Imagine yourself in a big city in a crowd of people. What it would be like to see all the people in the crowd like Jesus does–an anonymous crowd with old ones and young ones, fat ones and thin ones, attractive ones and ugly ones–think what it would be like to love them. If our faith is true, if there is a God, and if God loves, he loves each one of those. Try to see them as loved. And then try to see them, these faces, as loved by you. What would it be like to love these people, to love these faces–the lovable faces, the kind faces, gentle, compassionate faces? That’s not so hard. But there are lots of other faces–disagreeable faces, frightening fans, frightened faces, cruel faces, closed faces.
The Remarkable Ordinary by Frederick Buechner, p. 42
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