The Mind's Eye

Do You Look or See?  

We are bombarded every day with thousands of images.  They roll past in our minds like a never-ending DVD.  Like the move "Groundhog Day," some can replay over and over. We look at these images--perhaps--but do we ever stop the DVD to really see?

I caught this artist painting Pemaquid Point.  You can see enough of the canvass to know that her painting is not realism, in any objective sense, but her interpretation from her Mind's Eye.  She has stopped the flow of images to capture the one that means the most to her--which of course is what she really sees. The artist is no causal on-looker--but sees into the heart of things. 

When I recall the miracles of Jesus, I am captivated by the blind who suddenly see.  The miracle is not that the can only" look at the world, but they have a deeper, spiritual "in-sight" into who they are and who Jesus is for them.  There's a miracle in the miracle.  More than sight is restored. 

What can we do to use our Mind's Eye to really see? The Eastern practice of mindfulness is to be alive in every moment.  Take an image.  Focus it. Be with it.  See what you really see in it.  Record your feelings and thoughts in a journal.  Allow the artistic eye to emerge in you. Perhaps that's when we begin to live to do more than look--but to really SEE!