This may not sound great to you!  It was huge for me.

I had spent several years in Africa and tried to view the world through their eyes, the best I could.  That was a struggle, to be sure.

I did not expect the change that overcame me when early one morning on the coast of Somalia I experienced something that really upset the cozy world I grew up with – that is that the earth revolves around the sun!  But that did not prepare me for the moment when, as I stood on the beach of Somalia, looking east, I assumed that I would see the sun coming up.  Behold, I saw and detected something that I never experienced before – instead of seeing the sun coming up, I saw something that I could barely believe.  I saw the earth going down!  The sun did not change one bit.  I stood there, amazed, because I did not see the sun rise, I saw the earth fall!  It slipped downward.  In the morning? Yes. I was experiencing something new, something that would change me, deeply.  That experience so changed my way of looking at reality that it almost undid me.  It was a new world!

That experience helped me greatly.  Different cultures often have different ways of viewing reality.  They are shaped by their view of the world as I am shaped by mine.

So, where is Jesus in my view of the world?  He is the sun!  We revolve around Him!  Earthly things are temporary, at best.