As a sighted person, I rely upon my eyes for a lot of things. I cannot imagine getting through the day without the use of my eyes. I do have glasses that I used for distance, but my prescription is very light and can get along without them if needed. My eyes are a portal through which I experience the world. They provide dimension and a sense of what is real, but do they really? The information that is brought to my brain through my eyes is immediately subject to interpretation by my thinking. I evaluate what it is I am seeing and place it into one of the categories of understanding in my brain and determine what to do with that information. This is why you can have two completely separate eyewitness accounts of an event. What I am seeing is also dependent upon the angle at which I am seeing it. There is much I can miss about what is going on behind something when i can only see the front. But what about the things that we cannot see? I cannot see the electricity current run through my apartment, but I believe it is there and I experience it working. I cannot see the love of my parents because they live in another state but I believe just as sure that I am breathing that today they love each other. We think we are so dependent upon our eyes for what we “see” but how many things do we believe that we don’t see? God calls upon us constantly to tune in to what we are physically blind to but can see with our hearts and our spirits. My relationship with God as we walk hand in hand is a continual stretch to trust. To trust in things that I am currently blind to. I am at a time in my life where I can no longer run and while I do not “see” God as I “see” other things in my life I know just as I am breathing that God is with me today and will be with me as much as I want him to be all day long. The extent to which I do not “see” God is only limited by the ways in which I do not choose to see God. We all have moments of darkness in our days and lives. For me, those are times when I am blinded because I am only looking to myself or the physical world for answers. I know them because I experience a dis-ease and a lack of love (anger, fear, resentment, frustration, dismay, disappointment, etc.) Those moments of blindness are a gift because they create a willingness to see as God sees. When I am in that space of openness and am willing to see God in a new and different way, the more God is seen and my blindness goes away. My prayer for us today is that when we find ourselves in a moment of supposed darkness , we be open to finding the God-switch (perhaps in different place in the room) and ask Him to illuminate our minds and thus our reality. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen
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