english class.

let your eyes see beyond the dirt coating worn hands, rough feet, and unfashionable clothes to avoid initial incorrect judgments.

let your ears listen patiently past the slopping mud, foreign tongues, and stark silence to hear the muffled cries and tear down your unfaltering walls.

let your hands reach out and touch with gentle strength the unclean, discarded, and abandoned knowing this is your greatest calling.

and let your heart embrace with utmost fullness those who are pushed to the sidelines of this life, to follow a sanction placed upon your soul, to empty and cast off your identity and illuminate Him to all. Amen.