Vision and View

O how the internet opens you to see the hopes and struggles of people in distant lands. I have been recently reading of some friends who appear to be in captivity in the land of Egypt. I am not speaking of the land of Egypt of the biblical past, but the land of Egypt of the present day now.

I am particularly enamoured by the story of one young woman. She perhaps is a medical student. Let's call her Naheed, for the sake of protecting her anyonymity. Naheed is a very intelligent and sensitive young woman. She loves her religion Islam, yet she finds it outmoded. It is her hope to reform her religion. Each day Naheed expends enormous amount of energy, pointing out what appears to be erroneous about her religion and invites people into discussion on the internet. Yet she is so sensitive that she cannot handle the brickbats that come her way. Naheed naively hopes that she will be served with bouquets just because she has such great reform ideas.

After reading about the activities about Naheed, I feel like proclaiming to a dead civilization "Let, my People go." I will however restraint my feelings. I will not become someone else's Messiah. People don't need a Moses or a Messiah. If people need to come out of their captivity all they need is themselves. Through my fictious Naheed I maybe able to speak to many such women. Your Liberator is within you. Don't rebuild on an old foundation. Go to the mountain top yourself. Take a view of the enormous eternity of God's opportunities. Then come down the mountain, and translate the view you had seen into a vision for the people.

May be Naheed has already been to the mountain top. She may have already seen the view. She may now be, by her activities, translating the view into a vision. I don't know. I am here to see. I come here to connect.