dailydatewithgod

I can easily take for granted my ability to see. There is so much I take in about the world through my eyes. It is also easy to be fooled by my eyes. I can incorrectly think I understand something because I can see it. Have you ever found yourself asking someone if you could see something when actually what you meant was you wanted to hold it and take a closer look? Are we using the wrong word when we ask to see something and want to get our hands on it? Do we see more of something when we touch it and can move it around? By touching it and moving it around we see something from more angles. Perhaps we already know that when we are seeing something we are limited by the angle from which we are seeing it. Perhaps we know intuitively that we want to be able to fully see something and it requires more than just our eyes. Is that what we mean when we say, “seeing is believing”? We recognize in the way we use our words that the heart plays a role in seeing.  It is the same space that knows what it means to be seen.  The whole purpose of seeing is on some level to know it exists.  We make the presumption of existence based on what we are seeing.  The funny thing is that we do not realize that what we see is shaped by where we are with ourselves.  As Anais Nin wrote, “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”  Therefore what we are seeing, what we get our hands on can provide sight into ourselves and where we are in the moment.