Anna Anderson
CBF Field Personnel in Rocky Mount, NC
I recently attended CBF of North Carolina’s Annual Gathering. We had not been able to meet in person for the previous two years and this was a particularly special and wonderful time to gather again. The theme for this meeting was “The God Who Sees.” It was based on the story of Hagar, and how God came to her and how she actually named God, “you are the God who sees me.” The theme wove through sermons and workshops and stories about how God sees those who are often unseen, forgotten, outcast, ignored. We were invited to consider how God sees those with whom we regularly come in contact. This gathering moved me greatly as I began to think about how God sees me.
We recently had an experience in which someone involved in an important local ministry to alleviate poverty came to speak with us. She said, “Something just told me that I needed to come and talk to LaCount and Anna.”
She wanted to discuss with us an idea that would be mutually beneficial to our work and to hers and, more importantly, beneficial to people who are experiencing poverty in the community where we work. She felt that God had directed her toward us specifically. At the same time, I had been pondering our relationship with this organization. I felt like we had not been able to get the best information about their projects, or how we could collaborate. I finally realized that it didn’t matter: God had seen her. God had seen us. God had known this opportunity would be awesome. God saw all of it.
I want to recognize every day how God is guiding, directing, moving in myself and those around me. When I don’t see it or recognize it, when I don’t acknowledge it, or when I can’t even stop long enough to be aware, it is happening, God is seeing.
Thanks be to God for seeing me, for seeing you, for seeing all of us.
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