"In a beautiful, moving essay, Alice Walker recounts the moment when her young daughter first noticed the deformity in one of her mother's eyes. Expecting that the little girl, lying in her crib and staring at her mother's face, would react in horror, the mother braced herself for rejection. What came was a cry of delight: 'Mommy, there's a world in your eye...Mommy, where did you get that world in your eye?' At that moment she discovered, Walker confides to us, that it was even possible to love the damaged eye which had caused her so much shame and anger ever since she was a child.
"The words of that little girl might serve as a description of what it is going to mean to be Christian in the year 2000. Christians will be people who have the world in their eye. The very reality which we would flee or deny can suddenly become a blessing."
To Practice: Find ways this week to keep the world in your eye.