{{It is Friday. Today I link with Lisa Jo Baker for Five Minute Friday. Here is how it works…. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Lots of women. Everyone writes on the same word. Equals a great time.}}
Today’s word …. SEE.
My eyes can see. Granted my eyesight is not as good as it used to be. I had better than 20/20 vision most of my life. So when I was not able to see as well as before, it was noticeable and saddened me. I had truly prided myself on how well I could see. I could read the smallest print, thread the tiniest needle eye, and read signs from the farthest distance. But not any more. Even with my contacts, my eyesight is compromised with the mono-vision. But I can still see…..
The beauty of freshly fallen snow.
The beauty of each of my granddaughter’s faces.
The wisdom in the skin on each of my parent’s faces.
I can see joy on faces, tears in eyes, laughter on cheeks, a bluejay at my feeder.
The beauty in a bride, the rhythm of the ocean, leaves swaying on the tree.
These are all for me to see.
But sometimes life is not so easy to see.
There are days I lose my sight and cannot see right from wrong. There are days when I “see” wrong as right and think I am headed in the right direction. I have been warned about this,
Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes to see but do not see, who have ears but do not hear (Deuteronomy 5:21).
That scares me. I so do not want this to be a description of me. And so, this morning, I find myself praying, “Lord, help me to see!” I will admit, it is a desperate prayer this morning. I do not ever want that He, my Creator, must call me foolish. Senseless. I have been that enough in my life.
But rather I want to see …. I want to see Him. I want to see His ways.
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear (Matthew 13:16).
I. Want. To. See.Â
Today I am joining Lisa Jo at Five Minute Friday and also …. Faith Filled Fri. and Friendship Fri. and Essential Fri. and Fri. Flash Blog and Fellowship Fri. .
I’m with you! And it is so frustrating that I now have to slide glasses away to read, push them back to my face to see far…Oi! Age changes everything…but He is the only one who can help us truly see. After you at Lisa=Jo’s. Lovely words. Happy Friday!
He gives us better than 20/20 vision as we grow older in Him 🙂
It is so easy to think we are seeing when we aren’t. I am a missionary in Madagascar and I know I am seeing many many things, and yet, understanding so little! Humbling for sure, coming from someone who also prides herself with good eyesight 😉
I think the verse you highlight from Deut. is a great reminder. Like you, I also do not want this to be a description of me. How easy it is to justify wrongs and make them right in our minds, while we remain wrong. Or also, to “feel” like we understand what we are seeing, when really, we are not. Linking up after you on Faith Filled Fridays!
Grace For That
I cannot imagine all that you are seeing & experiencing. May you (we) continue to rely on Him to help us see and truly understand. So grateful to have you share here! Blessings!
This is a great post! I can relate. For 2014, I want to be present. I thinking seeing and being present go hand in hand. I can’t see what life has to offer me right now, without being present. And, you can’t see those beautiful things without being present.
I am constantly focused on the next task, the next thing I need to do, all of the tasks I haven’t finished and such. I need to be present in 2014.
Yes may we truly live in the present. Today is all we have!
Dear Joanne
How I hear the sigh of your heart. His ways are the most wondrous to see, dear one, for when we look at Him with unveiled faces, we behold the glory of our Beloved.
Blessings XX
Mia
Amen, Mia!
I want to see, too, Joanne! Great post!
Thank you, Holly. May we see a little bit better each day!
This is great – I pray to see the beauty and to always seek God’s perspective on the world.
Thanks for sharing at Essential Fridays.
Blessings
Mel from Essential Thing Devotions
Mel – thanks for having us all over 🙂 Essential Friday is a great linkup. Blessings!
As someone who has recently faced challenges involving my eyesight, this really confirmed what the Lord has been telling me. There’s no fear in losing my eyesight, because my “sight” is now on HIM!!! I can praise, worship and rejoice with or without my vision. Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Thanks Joanne!
Deb – May we always have 20/20 vision where He is concerned. I always want to see things clearly. Nothing would scare me more than to miss Him. Blessings!