Give Me Your Eyes

"Give me your eyes" This phrase strikes fear in heart of anyone who attended Calhoun St Elementary school in the late 70's and early 80's. Ms. Eugenia Lee, the art teacher, would always say this. I never understood what she meant by the phrase. In my mind, she was expecting me to take out my eye balls and hand them to her. All I could think of was the bad ending of one of those scary choose your own ending books. I now understand that she was asking for our attention. She wanted our eyes focused on her.

Like our Heavenly Father, she knew that we get the instructions and follow them, if we would focus. Last summer I fell in love with a new artist (it just so happens that he won a dove award for new artist of the year) named Brandon Heath. A few weeks ago, I heard those dreaded words, "Give me your eyes", on the radio. All of the sudden that phrase took on a brand new meaning for me. Heath's new song, Give me your eyes, is incredible. I knew immediately that I had to purchase it so I rushed on over to his website and then Itunes. Take a look at these lyrics:

Looked down from a broken sky traced out by the city lights. My world from a mile high best seat in the house tonight. Touched down on the cold black tile hold on for the sudden stop. Breath in the familiar shock of confusion and chaos. Are those people going somewhere? Why have I never cared?

Give me your eyes for just one second. Give me your eyes so I can see everything that I keep missing. Give me your love for humanity. Give me your arms for the broken hearted wasn't it far beyond my reach? Give me your heart for the once forgotten. Give me your eyes so I can see again again yeah yeah.

Step out on a busy street see a girl and our eyes meet. Does her best to smile at me to hide whats underneath. There's a man just to her right black suit and a bright red tie. To ashamed to tell his wife he's out of work he's buying time. Are those people going somewhere? Why have I never cared?

I've Been there a million times. A couple of million eyes just moving past me by. I swear I never thought that I was wrong. Well I want a second glance so give me a second chance to see the way you see the people all alone.

This song hit me like a ton of bricks as we were preparing for Memphis. Without even realizing it, people cross my path everyday that are going somewhere. Their journey has become intertwined with mine. Did I ever stop to think why we intertwined? Did I ever care where they were going? It is so easy to get caught up in our own lives and forget about those around us, especially the ones we don't know. How many opportunities have I missed? How many times could I have been Christ to someone?

I don't want to miss anymore opportunities. I have had plenty in the last few days in dealing with all of this fraud stuff. My prayer is that my attitude has been one of compassion, one of humility, one of Christ. I am counting down the days until I can purchase this whole album. No doubt, it will be incredible! Until then , Lord, give me your eyes!