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Scripture tells us that "faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). There are times, though, when faith makes the invisible visible and allows us to see—to view others in a light so different that they are transformed. Then, unattractiveness becomes beauty, repulsiveness less distasteful.
With or without the assistance of this transforming light, faith calls us to see the face of Christ in the least of our brothers and sisters and to minister to them. I was reminded of this on a recent visit to the hospital.
The Angry Woman. I have always imagined Christ with luminous brown eyes, full of love and compassion. The eyes I was looking into were cold and steel blue, with anger flashing from them. In my mental picture, Jesus has lush, dark brown hair falling in soft waves to his shoulders. The hospital patient before me had short, dirty and stringy hair, a dishwater blond over gray. Jesus was thirty-three years old when he died, a young man, by our standards. This woman was anything but young—in her eighties, I’d have guessed.
Even though the hospital room…
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