People everywhere. Scurrying, working or on their way to it, meandering, pausing,. Some obviously deep in thought. I look at them with questioning eyes. What do they think about?

Probably terrorism, their job, wife, husband, family. Hoping they’ll remember to buy the toothpaste or the milk on the way home. Decent enough people in their own eyes, but lost in the eyes of God.

There is insurance to cover every eventuality in this world, but is there any thought for the next?

They may have the world’s education; university degrees, certificates; the keys to a good paycheck; but what do they know of God?

Do they think about the deeper things? Are they only seeing the topsoil in the garden of life? Can they see the flowers—or only the weeds that need pulling? Do they look at the sun and the clouds and the sky and see God, or is His work as mundane to them as the early-morning commuter train?

Does it ever strike them that no-one else has their voice, their features or their fingerprints? Do they marvel at how an acorn turns into an oak tree?

Do they wonder how an eagle can fly high as a mountaintop, or how the antenna of a cockroach is more finely tuned than a TV aerial?

Do they see God’s fountain of life or merely a dried-up riverbed?

Do they see the signs of God or only dollar signs?

God is everywhere, but to them He seems to be nowhere.

On the bus they peer over someone’s shoulder and read the headline “More Die in West Bank” but fail to see the young girl help a blind man to a seat. Does the newspaper’s misery and mayhem cause them to see the glass of life as half empty?

I hear someone say, “Oh my God.” It makes me want to respond: ”Is He really?”

The young men laugh and joke—thinking they’ll be around for another fifty years. Do they realise eternity is a breath away, as it was for those at Bali?

Is Jesus any more to people than a vague, religious figure who makes the TV news at Easter and Christmas?

Are they seeing the treasure that lies beyond the hurly-burly of everyday life? Do they know of the peace which could be theirs now and eternally?

What are we doing to enlighten them? Who is going to tell them?

• Topic: Inspirational

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