Everywhere I go I’ll see you

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Today I embark on a quest, a quest of seeing life in a new light. 

You see, most often cool things happen when I am in India and especially when laying in a hotel room bed at 3am and can’t sleep, primarily because my body is thinking “hey lazy butt get up its afternoon time in KS”, how stupid is that, after all I subjected it to 20 some odd hours of travel to the other side of the world and this with little sleep, cramped conditions and not the best of food. (Even the Whopper in Bangkok tasted funny…hopefully it was USDA grade chuck but I suspect it wasn’t.)

Anyway, I decide to do something productive with this sleeplessness, unfortunately I already downed 2 Simply Sleep pills and I didn’t do what my friend Jennifer told me to do before I left on my trip which was to go see a doctor and get a script for some Ambien.  So what shall I do?  I know, I’ll get up and read, wait, I can’t, Bob is still sleeping and sense he is still fighting a cold, I better not wake him, so the next best thing at 3am is my headphones and mp3 player (I’m too cheap for an IPOD).

Fast forward a few hours and I am now listening to a worship album by Michael W. Smith and one of the songs strikes me to the point of hitting repeat multiple times.  In this song, sorry I don’t know the name, one of the lines is “everywhere I go I’ll see you.”   I don’t really know why this appealed to me so much unless it was reinforcing a heart cry within me to actually see God at work not only in my personal life and that of my family but also in creation, and more specifically in areas of poverty, oppression, and dehumanization.  After all, this is the evil that I encounter when I come to India and I want to do something about it.

Maybe the appeal of the song is this: A day when I can walk the dusty and dirty roads of India’s rural villages and even busy cities for that matter and see the activity of God everywhere, to actually “see” Him at work in people, so thick in the air that there is a buzz about it.  Something you may not be able to actually put your finger on but you sense it all around you, that is what I am talking about.  A move of God so strong that when you look at the fellow in front of you and smile you notice that it was he who was first smiling at you, and this not because you have a silly turban on your head and you look like a swan but because Jesus is doing something special inside of both people and that is recognized intuitively.  That is what I want and it is becoming the thing that I am now going to be praying for!

Peace.

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