The Invisible Place

     Today, I choose to be thankful for the people who have truly seen Clark and me. That probably sounds strange, but in ministry, you are either in the crowd, or you are not. Most often, we have been on the outside, looking in. I'm not completely sure if God put us there or if God's people put us there, and while it is a familiar place to us now, I won't pretend it is not a lonely and painful place. It feels like a very unfair place.
   But it is a place of honesty. And it has directed my eyes past the ones who socially recognize us to truly find the ones who "see" us...the ones who just see sinners saved by grace who are trying to walk as closely to their invisble God as they can draw through His Word.
      Living in the invisible place has also helped me spot fellow outsiders. And while I would never want to label you as an outsider or spotlight the pain of it, if you feel like you share this place where we seem to live...I hope I have spotted you and that you felt visible, if only while we passed one another. I hope, that if our eyes have met, I have smiled. I hope that if I spoke, it showed sincere concern for you, personally. Because I know that some days, living in the invisible place seems less impossible thanks to one person who takes the time to look.

"And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind... yet now hath he reconciled... to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight." Colossians 1:21-22