{"id":1095,"date":"2017-04-17T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2021-12-06T21:49:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T02:49:47","slug":"4-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2017\/04\/17\/4-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"4 eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/?attachment_id=27956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27956\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/files\/2017\/04\/1-IMG_5268-001-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you see in this picture? What does it look like to you? It&#8217;s the housing of professors at a prestigious university in a West African city where I trained some colleagues last week on how to do PGA (survey work).<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw this housing, I was using my eyes from My Country, and it looked amazingly extravagant. Look at those huge houses and all that grass, and the fact that it&#8217;s by water, and how far away the houses are from their neighbors!<\/p>\n<p>But then I quickly changed my mentality and tried to look at it with my &#8220;American&#8221; eyes. I immediately saw something different. It looked a lot like the training center where I got my missionary training in Missouri! It also reminds me of the lakes, nice lawns, and big houses on the lakes near my house in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>It was surprising even to me to see how this same scene looked totally different to me, all within a minute or two, because I looked at it with two different sets of &#8220;eyes.&#8221; I&#8217;ve heard it said that kids who wear glasses are teased by being called &#8220;4 eyes.&#8221; Whether or not that&#8217;s true, I think that cross-cultural missionaries should be glad if we can see the world through 2 different sets of eyes &#8211; those of where we grew up and those of where we&#8217;re currently serving. I actually hope that soon I&#8217;ll be able to be called &#8220;6 eyes,&#8221; since the culture in My Village is very different than the culture in the city, and looking at the world the way the village people see it will require even a different set of eyes than my &#8220;city&#8221; eyes that I&#8217;ve acquired these last 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how many different sets of eyes you have to see the world through, as a Christian it&#8217;s important to remember that they each need a set of contact lenses to see the world not exactly as those around us see it, but as Jesus would see it if He was living there.<\/p>\n<p><!--Posted by Email--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you see in this picture? What does it look like to you? It&#8217;s the housing of professors at a prestigious university in a West African city where I trained some colleagues last week on how to do PGA (survey work). When I first saw this housing, I was using my eyes from My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}