The stewardess saw a person who needed help getting to her seat. The teenager who sat next to her saw an old fuddy duddy and put on his head set. The businessman seated across the aisle saw her wallet bulging with pictures and hid in his newspaper so he wouldn't have to hear about her grandchildren. They were all astounded when they got off the plane to see a large crowd of people there at the airport waiting to greet her. It is a great honour to have an artist like you visit us.
Faith is about beginning to see more clearly, about opening our eyes to the possibilities.
That is the kind of seeing that I am talking about. It is the sort of seeing by which one understands more clearly than ever before what the purpose of life is or what one's world is about or what love truly is. Such revelations transform in an instant the everyday humdrum of routine so that we come to know more clearly than we ever thought possible. I know that some people can point to a specific time in their lives when they came to faith. But for most of us it is about a gradual beginning to see more clearly.