The Unsung

I have a beautiful print of an oil painting by famed Wisconsin artist David Lenz.  My friend Jack gave it to me a few months ago. David niche was to paint pictures of the ‘unsung’. The picture I have is of a young African American child, with a Milwaukee sunrise as a backdrop. 

Many of David’s subjects have some sort of impairment. His passion was to see people with flaws as beautiful works of God’s creation. (Of course, who of us isn’t flawed?)  

Like Jesus, David also loved unsung people…people who might not be noticed because they’re in the background or on the margins of life.

Who did Jesus notice?  The blind, the lame, people possessed by an evil spirit, the soldiers nailing Him to the cross, lepers begging from a distance, people whose hearts were broken. Jesus recognized them and thereby lifted up their spirits.   

Make a list of unsung people you know. Or pay attention to people on the peripheries of your life today. What simple things could you do or say that might help someone like that feel like they count?