Lenses

Recently I've been thinking that I tend to see issues through my personal lens.  I can look at things objectively when they're abstract concepts that don't really touch my life, but once something shows up in my personal life, I can't look at it without bias.  For instance, the health care bill that just got passed.  I tend to avoid the news whenever possible, so I'm relatively behind on the specifics of this bill.  However, when I read a newspaper article about it this morning, I was dissapointed by the information provided because it didn't answer my main question.  I could care less about how the bill got passed, or how many politicians with ruffled feathers there are.  I just want to know: If I hit a financial crisis, will I be able to pay for my prescriptions?  Will I have to stop using my insulin pump and go back to injections, or will the insurance from wherever I work next year cover my pump supplies?  This isn't the only situation where I get overwhelmed by the view from my own lens and forget about the big picture.

In the most recent chapter of God's Economy, Wilson-Hartgrove writes a lot from Jesus' lens.  He is talking about ownership of money, rendering to Caesar what is due to Caesar and all of that, but he keeps coming back to Jesus.  I like that; in the midst of hot political issues, he keeps coming back to Jesus.