dailydatewithgod

We easily get swept away by what we see. We figure if we are seeing it, it is all there is to see. We lose sight of the fact that what we see or what we think we see is based on what filters we have. We do not intentionally blind ourselves but it is inevitable. Often times what we are seeing is merely an insinuation of what is happening. We are only getting a hint of the full picture. We cannot see all things from all angles. We cannot know all the ingredients seen and unseen that are mixed into what is showing itself to us in this moment. The subtlety involved in what we see from moment to moment flies in the face of what we often determine is a fact. A defeatist way to approach this would to not put any value on what we see. God encourages us to pay attention to the insinuation before us by noticing what it creates within us. What ideas are conjured up in our minds because of the insinuation? What feelings are moving in our bodies because of the insinuation? Are our hearts beating fast or slow? Do we find the insinuation causes us to tighten our breath and have more ease? There is no specific value to an insinuation, only the story we create around it based not on what our eyes are seeing but on what the whole of us is making out of being present with it. There is value in what we see, there is greater value in what the insinuation showing us about what is happening within us.