{"id":2162,"date":"2023-12-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"MY EYES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mission Resource received a gift of $12,000 from a South Dakota businessman over the weekend!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sent him an email this morning asking if I could talk to him on the phone &#8211; I was curious about his connection to the microfinance work we are doing in Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was glad to see him oblige my request immediately. On the call this man explained how he had made a trip to Ghana ten years ago and met a man who is one of our loan officers. The two stayed in touch over the years and now the businessman wanted to enable his Ghanaian friend to make a greater number of loans.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The businessman quoted a portion of a Bible verse which I had not heard before: &#8220;My eyes affected my heart&#8221;. (Lamentations 3:51)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could list all kinds of statistics about microfinance and the impact it has on those living in poverty, but there is something about seeing &#8211; truly seeing, with your own eyes &#8211; another human being&#8217;s desperate circumstances that can move the heart to action like nothing else can.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Resource received a gift of $12,000 from a South Dakota businessman over the weekend!\u00a0 I sent him an email this morning asking if I could talk to him on the phone &#8211; I was curious about his connection to the microfinance work we are doing in Ghana. I was glad to see him oblige [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}