"Eye: 'I'"

Read Acts 8:30-31

On a "Community Walk", we stopped to enter one of our local historical tourist promotion companies. Inside they have on the wall, the world shortest poem written by Muhammad Ali, the famous United States of America former heavyweight champion of boxing. Ali authored: "Me:We". How profound? I was reminded of our visit, when I asked my assistant to interpret my poem titled "Eye" with only a one word content - "I". I warned that it was based on my existential philosophical anxiety with the here and now.

Before I take you into the turning of my philosophical into the theological by my assistant, imagine the anxiety of Phillip going into a village of people hated by the Jews and proclaiming the good news of Christ. What about the eunuch of Ethiopia, seeing Phillip running to over take his chariot as he was reading from the book of Isaiah? As you catch a glimpse into their thoughts, are you not really into your thoughts, faced with similar circumstances? In the making of all interpretations is comes down to what the "I" thinks.

Now, I wrote my assistant: "Here is my philosophy of this week found in the content of my poem titled Eye: 'I'. ... you as hearer of my existential anxiety decipher my depth of meaning." Three hours later the response came: "It sounds like Ali's 'Me:We.' But, 'Eye: I' makes me think of our 'third eye', being the spirit/soul truly being and seeing who we are."

So on point. I went on to give the original thought that led to "Eye." Check it out, then tell me what you see in the eye of your mind. "Interesting," I went on to write, "dynamic. You just rewrote or wrote a new version, because my content was only 'I', but I named it 'Eye,' in that the original meaning has to do with 'all ever seen' in a person, called I. Therefore, the me of each of us is examined. Yes, you are right, its the human eyes and the eye of the soul looking at 'I.'" Continuing I wrote: "I like that you recalled Ali's 'Me:We.'" Wonder what that brother of Islam was thinking?

Think, what is the "I" discovered in your mirror, and in your soul? I hear the eunuch, and understand the "I" seeking guidance. How can "I" understand, unless someone guides me. At birth from the warmth of Mother's cradle, I was blind to the understanding of what I was seeing until she taught me from her lap the meanings of our ethnicity and eternity. My parents guided me to the Holy Spirit by way of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is the "All Seeing Eye" that abides within me, as "I" abide in God. There it is. "I" seeks to know and express who I am.

Thus, in essence, "I" is the great "I AM." Let those who have the "Eye" to see, seek the understanding through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Pray! This is written to encourage you to come to know who you are through prayer. That you may discover God in the discovery of you. In this life, may we surrender freedom of will to the guidance of God. I pray, we will.

Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, grant us the wisdom we seek. Amen.