Eyes of the Heart

Marshall Point Lighthouse, Maine 

 Eyes of the Heart

We see the world through a window, never as it really is--but only as the eye allows.  We all know that the camera lens does not reproduce the world as we ourselves see it.  But do we ever stop to fully appreciate the limitations of our own vision?  The literal, physical world is only as our lens gives us to see it. 

Yet why is it, that we hear from those who are blind and realize how well they see?  The story of Helen Keller is nothing but amazing if not grace.  With eyes of faith, she grew to see the world at a depth that we the seeing are blind to.  So what does it take to see the world through eyes of faith?

Look again at the picture above.  What really matters?  The window!  If the shade is pulled, you see nothing. Or, the consistency of the glass effects dramatically what you see. Put a polarizer lens on the window and all the glare is gone.  In the same way, imagine that window as your life story.  Everything you have logged into your data bank colors the glass.  There are some situations in life in which our backgrounds make us totally blind.  The families which raised us, their values and beliefs, all of them gives us our vision of the world. 

Exercise:  Draw a rectangle.  Let that stand for the window.  Now draw the individual squares of glass, framed into the window.  Put a number in each pane.  List out what you believe are the dominant "eyes" from your background which shape your vision.  Which ones do you value the most?  Which ones need to change? 

"Now we see in a glass darkly, but then face to face."

I Corinthians 13