One of the metaphors for the Christian life is that we are pilgrims, alien-residents of this world, looking for a better country! But what we find in our post-modern world is that most people are merely toursists, not pilgrims. Here is one poetic expression of our disconnected world.
Tourist; that’s what we are becoming…Tourists, we move through life, flitting from idea to idea, from novelty to novelty, from new person to new person. Never settling, always moving…selecting the best sights, the highlights, the choice cuts, avoiding the mess on the edge of town, the slums, all the uncomfortable things, the struggle of really knowing people, never settling, always moving lest we hear the hollow clang of our own emptiness…
Tourists; that’s what we are becoming…inquisitive, curious, picking up the tidbits of other people’s depth…
Tourists, flicking through our snapshots, the paper thin trophies of our click and run existence, filing them away, loading the next roll of film, never settling, always moving,
Tourists; that’s what we are becoming,
Tourists; that’s what we are becoming…
–Mark Greene
Strengthened by Grace 