Invisible

Who is invisible?

Pastor Anne told the story of a pastor who worked with his upper-middle class congretaion in a Pennsylvania city.  The neighborhood had changed from upper middle class to mostly blue-collar, Hispanic folks.  He and the congregation had worked to simply befriend, get acquainted, participate in the community. 

Some of the community who did landscaping, gardening and yard work wanted to express their appreciation and offered to spiff up the church grounds for Easter, on Easter.  The pastor was delighted and said, "I don't know anything about landscaping, and can hardly work a shovel, but I want to help."  They agreed.

On Easter morning they were all working as people came to the Easter service.  No one recognized the pastor among the workers.  They were all invisible.  (Did I forget to mention that the pastor was from a country in Central America and "looked" just like the other workers?)  They were all invisible in their work clothes and hoodies to the congregation until the pastor began saying, "Hi" to some of them. 

No need to get on our high horse about the eyesight (vision) of the members of that church.  The real faith question for century 2 is this:  "Who is invisible to me?  to you?  Who is it you don't even know you can't see, don't see, and possibly do not want to see?

What do you think?  Leave a comment and share your thinking with the rest of us.