Tag Archives: Seeing

Mystery Flight

As I soar up here, way up high;

I look down to see where the past has taken me by.

The past is there, I see it well;

There’s much in the story I have yet to tell.

The past I see shows me so much;

If I reach out to feel it, I cannot touch.

Experience taught me so much in life,

I always wanted to avoid strife.

Hiding in that closed off shell;

I thought it would protect but it was more like hell.

As I gaze down over my present days,

I struggle to see through all the haze.

Clarity is what I desire,

Searching for it only makes me tire.

The future has much to do;

If only it would come into view.

I sense the joy,

That those days will bring;

I know it’s important to cut that string.

What will it be like,

Only God shall know;

What will it feel like,

As love will grow?

Where will this journey take me,

Only God can see,

Where this journey will take me.

For now, I will look to see

Only what’s before me.

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SEEING THROUGH EXPERIENCE

I am reminded of a line spoken in the movie The Santa Claus; “seeing isn’t believing, believing is seeing.” When we believe in God, we begin to see how and where He is working in our lives and the lives of others. This ‘seeing’ is a byproduct of belief. Hope is a byproduct of seeing ones future through the eyes of Jesus. Staying close to God brings the byproduct of comfort. When we know who and whose we are, the byproduct is obedience and submission. The difference between seeing and SEEING is experience. It’s the difference between the head and the heart; this is only a few inches but can seem like a mile when thoughts and feelings are involved.

Yes, it matters!

Our thoughts matter; our words matter; their words matter; what we think matters; what we see matters; and what we hear matters.

I have learned about the superb seeing power of lions; they don’t see like people, they see well beyond. This is interesting to me. Another detail about lions is interesting to me. The males; with their big ROAR, sound off; in the hunt for food, while the lionesses lay in wait for the prey to run away from the roar only to become dinner, compliments of the lionesses. The prey thinks they see the way to living another day, only they are blind to reality; they are about to be done permanently. Running blindly in fear, leads to them being undone. To really SEE, would require the prey to run toward the ROAR which leads to LIFE and strength.

Show Sugi Ban is a treatment for wood that leads to it being beautiful and waterproof. The thing about this treatment is that for the wood to become beautiful and waterproofed, it is burned under high heat and a big flame. Before the wood is treated, you can see the character of the wood; however, after it is burned under high heat and a big flame the strengths and beauty of the wood is even more visible.

Zechariah 13:9 (NLT)

“I will bring that group through the fire
    and make them pure.
I will refine them like silver
    and purify them like gold.
They will call on my name,
    and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘These are my people,’
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”

What we have experienced in our lives matter to God! These things that we experience tend to be the lens by which we ‘see’ what we blindly believe to be danger; so we fear it and run in the other direction, not realizing that if we would trust God and run toward what we fear, we will become strong and truly LIVE with much greater SEEING ability. Through the experience of ‘feeling under the fire;’ those things that make us a masterpiece, become even more visible.

For so many years, I blindly thought that the best way to stay ‘safe’ was to run from those things that scared me because they had burned me in the past. It has been a very rewarding experience to SEE my past experiences in a new way. By running toward fears and trusting God, I have become stronger and those things of beauty that God has placed in my life have become more visible.

On July 10th; as my husband and I greeted so many loved ones who came to share love with our family in the midst of our grief over the loss of our son in a motorcycle accident, I stood where I was directed and hugged friend after friend and family member after family member. I was drained. I was tired. I was hurting. I was numb. I was existing on auto-pilot. Hour after hour passed by but it seemed like minutes. Then a friend blessed me in two ways. She offered me some of her strength so that I could keep going and the most amazing gift she gave me was the awareness to see something that; in my limited sight of the inches in front of me couldn’t see, she asked me a great question. “Can you SEE the LOVE in this place?” Truthfully, I couldn’t really see anything other than the person right in front of me. That is until I looked up and started to look around the room; I saw the line of people waiting to love on us and l saw the LOVE that God and these loved ones were pouring out on us! It was one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen. I could not SEE; until I looked at what I was avoiding, and then experienced the LOVE that God was showering on us.

Those hard times in life can serve as the refining fire that helps us to truly SEE and experience LIFE.

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