When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” Acts 14:11
It was well before cell phones when I first started doing mission work in Haiti. Nonetheless, I was warned that I should never take a villager’s photograph without their permission. A great deal of them thought that taking their photo would steal their soul.
The concept was incredibly foreign to me. Then I realized that taking pictures was incredibly foreign to them. It all comes down to the fact that we each view life through our own eyes. That view is framed by perspective, experience, understanding and culture. Until one or more of those things change and/or grow, we are limited by their boundaries.
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