In school, I really didn't like History. Don't get me wrong, I know it has huge importance and implications for us today, but I struggled to see it. I felt it was just random names, dates and events that some mean person somewhere in the school system was forcing me to memorize. I just couldn't connect it to a face or how it affected me now.

Basically it was a mumbled-jumbled pile of information that I didn't really know what to do with.

As I look forward and continue onward I cannot ignore a how faces change history and how amazed I am to see how my perspective changes when a situation has a face attached to it.

Poverty, Human trafficking and natural disasters can seem so removed from us and get categorized in our minds as just humanitarian concepts until a face is attached to them--children in Africa, Girls disappearing in Moldova, floods and tornados and hurricanes all over the US. They can be just horrible acts--that we give maybe five mins thought to--until we know someone affected by it, in short until we see a face.

God sometimes can seem off in the distance and removed from where I am in the here and now. Christ came in a sense to put a face to the name along with many other things. Even after He lived 33 years on this planet, God still can seem like another concept/idea, another thing to hope in until his face is shown and attached to us.

I don't know about anyone else, but I am tired of being disconnected and detached from people around me and especially from God. So here is what I want to do.

I want to attach faces.

The reality is there are those out there who are affected by every action. Just because I don't see their face or know their names doesn't mean tragedy isn't hitting them, or their pain is any less.

There is life in a face---so much meaning in a face—as well as so much can be said in one solitary face.