Eyes of the Heart
The other night, my dog was walking me (not the other way
around), when she stopped dead in her tracks…she was peering into the night,
her body stone still, and she was fixed and fastened on something –unseen to
me. As we got closer, out of the dark
bolted a deer. She knew it was
there. She had to be my eyes! We often talk of “seeing eye dogs,” yet that
is closer to the truth. Jesus is clear
that those who claim to see on their own (spiritually) really do not. Those who look with the Spirit’s “seeing eye”
really do. But what it sometimes takes
is to stop in your tracks and pray that the Spirit will open the eyes of the
heart. In Benedict’s Way, the first
chapter talks about “the eyes of the heart.” They disciplined themselves to
allow the Spirit to see through them into the lives around them. They saw Christ in the stranger!
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