We want to share our wealth with the poor community on the other side of town so their children will have just as good a future as our own. It would look like the dominion of God. And the Bible says we will be judged by God on what we have done to create that holy nation and beloved community. In God's kingdom, the poor are royalty and the sick are blessed. We can only act within a world we can see.
Vision is the necessary prerequisite for ethics.
Help us to see you. O God, who is fifteen and in the sixth grade. Help us to see you. Help us to see you, as you have seen us in Jesus Christ our Lord. O God, who sleeps in a bed with your four brothers and sisters, and who cries and no one hears you, Help us to touch you.