I felt compelled by this picture.

Description of picture:
Dearborn, Michigan, June 2002: Tufaha Baydayn, a Lebanese American, fled Lebanon’s civil war in the 1970s.

There is something simple about this picture. A woman, who was made in the image of God, living a life for Allah, or so it seems. Mowing her lawn. In America.

Did she ever think her life would be like this? Living in America, among many others in Dearborn?

What is it like to mix cultures? Does she feel like people are judging her? Think she is a terrorist?

Or do they see her as someone who is trying to make life work out? Do they see her as someone who may be lost? Who may be working for peace... but it having a hard time finding it?

What is her family like? I wonder.
What was she feeling when this picture was taken of her? I wonder that too.

I am compelled by this picture. I am drawn to Muslims and to the Islamic Culture in its self, but this for some reason... is just so simple. It reminded me of how simple life can be, even though one can be in two worlds.

I feel like that. Living in this world, yet patiently waiting for Christ's return. Living to serve our God in a world that is fallen from sin. Living in a world to love and to show Christ's love... so that the Lord can be glorified.