Often many of us go through life longing to be seen by others. In Luke 13:10-17 we observe how the synagogue leader missed it. He missed the celebration of this woman being healed. A woman who had suffered for 18 years was miraculously healed in a moment and this leader missed it! The reason he missed it I believe is because he never saw her.

"Our fathers” have given us this practice of patriarchy and racism that remains in our country and in a lot of our churches today. The violent and unjust acts we witness in our world today are symptoms of this illness that hides behind American exceptionalism. However, This history reveals, like Kendrick’s song, that this is a generational problem and…