Does Anybody See Her?

Why are people so cruel? Saw a woman at lunch who obviously has more issues than me and most other people. Tattered clothes, missing teeth, bright pink ratted hair, her head hung low…people were laughing at her and they weren’t even trying to be discreet about it. She walked up to a table of a group of laughing women… she said “its okay I saw you laughing at me, my hair was supposed to be red but it turned pink instead, I saw you laughing” then she walked away from them. The women of course reacted totally repulsed that she even came near their perfect little bubble. This woman ordered a bagel and started walking back out the same way she came in, with people still looking at her is disbelief all the while chuckling among themselves. She stopped by my table and said ” my hair was supposed to be red not pink” I didn’t even see her hair at that point, all I saw was hopelessness in her eyes. I have NEVER seen that depth of hopelessness, this woman was lost and my heart literally ached for her.  All I could say was. ” you are not your hair, you are not what you wear.  God doesn’t want any of that, he wants your heart, your thoughts, let him take care of your heart. ”  She looked at me with the same hopeless look and said, “K” and walked away.  

I am not sharing this to pin roses on myself.  I am not so great and most days I am a step away from the edge …. but God is a keeper!!!  I love this song by Casting Crowns.  People are hurting in the world, Lord knows I have experienced my own, perhaps you are hurting right now, and this woman….this woman with the pink ratted hair…….well I wonder wherever she is ….does anybody see HER?  Not her hair, not her clothes, but does anybody SEE HER??????