People say they can get on a subway and tell the hearts of the people. I have heard preachers say it for years, ‘I can see the emptiness in their eyes.’ I don’t know what they see because they look normal to me. I wouldn’t say they look joyful, but they look normal. Some happy, some sad.
I think it may be one of those things preachers say to make the world look bad. It doesn’t really need our help. There are plenty of terrible things out there, but to make it a ‘look’ is much more than can be said.
I wonder if those preachers ever look out at their own crowd. My experience is that church often looks quite ‘normal’ as well. There are more ‘happy’ people there than on the subway, but only because the subway doesn’t expect us to put on a face for them.
Perhaps preachers use this as a way to say, ‘look alive, out there.’
It is a lot of pressure.
