{"id":1121,"date":"2009-08-21T06:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T12:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2009-08-21T06:55:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T12:55:29","slug":"avoiding-eye-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/avoiding-eye-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Eye Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reading:
\nActs 3:1-10<\/font>\n<\/div>\n

We were waiting at the traffic light yesterday in Gresham, Oregon. (We were westbound on Highway 26 just before it goes under the I-205 freeway, if you must know.)<\/p>\n

He, too, was waiting at the traffic light.<\/p>\n

But, unlike we, he wouldn’t be moving on when the green light lit.<\/p>\n

He was in motion, though, slowly walking on “his” piece of sidewalk, his hand-lettered piece of cardboard held for his captive audience to read.<\/p>\n

The sign declared him…homeless…living in his car…needing money for food\/gas.<\/p>\n

I looked straight ahead. Because I rarely know what to do when I’m part of such an audience. I’m a cynic. I’m also a Christian. And generally in cases like that, the former triumphs over the latter.<\/p>\n

Maybe it should. Maybe it shouldn’t. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Then He Who Will Not Call Them Kids thought of They Who Would Not Be Called Children — “What do they think of Dad not giving that man some money?”<\/p>\n

And I realized, “I’m not looking at the guy.” Much less making eye contact. Why not?<\/p>\n

I don’t know that either.<\/p>\n

It seemed pretty lame then.<\/p>\n

It seems very much so now.<\/p>\n

Especially after reading this a bit ago:<\/p>\n

“And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us”<\/font><\/b> (4).<\/p>\n

So…what will I do next time?<\/p>\n

I don’t know that either.<\/p>\n

Maybe that man got from me such as I have — of compassion, of cynicism, of love, of suspicion, of generosity, of selfishness, of Christ.<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

Ouch!<\/p>\n

What do you do in situations such as that?<\/p>\n

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