Geneva

In the November 2009 edition of The Atlantic in an article entitled "Houses of the Future," Wayne Curtis discussed the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He and other architects were looking for inexpensive housing that would fit the leisure and funkiness of The Big Easy. His "ah-ha" moment came when he re-envisioned New Orleans.

 

Instead of a liability, he now saw an asset upon which he could design homes. At first, he saw New Orleans as an "ill-governed, ill-educated, crime ridden, dirty, poverty stricken" city. Then he realized that New Orleans should not be compared to American cities. It should be compared to Caribbean cities. He now viewed New Orleans as the Geneva (Switzerland) of the Caribbean!

 

Is there someone in your life who you need to see with fresh eyes? Maybe even yourself? Americans love it instantly label people and categorize them. And do we LOVE to compare. God made all of us unique and for a special purpose. When we see people thought God's eyes, we see a beauty that may not be apparent at first.

 

Look at yourself and someone else today, imagining what God sees, what God made precious in you and others.