Day 21 of 31 Days of Chasing THE Light
Perspective Light
Had I rushed in this
moment with my daughter I would have missed it. I would have missed the
opportunity to see – to talk to her about perspective. To remind myself that
Today, let’s shift our perspective. Let’s remember that
when our eyes are good – our whole body will be full of light. Let’s be hunters
of beauty today by looking through the lens of Jesus. Chase The Light.
Jesus said, ‘If your
eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad,
your whole body will be full of darkness.’” ~Matthew 6:22-23
It’s late and she comes running to my bedroom saying,
“Mommy, you have got to come see the moon!” So tired, I look up at her with
blurry eyes and reluctantly get up and follow behind her. She takes me to the
laundry room window and says, “Look, do you see it? Right there! Mommy, the moon?” I’m looking at the moon –
it’s bright and beautiful but I’m not seeing what she is desperately trying to
show me.
She runs into her room and grabs a block. This block
opens up and has multiple pictures inside it. She shows me the picture of the
cross – it looks like a bridge and this cross leads to heaven with Jesus
waiting there. “Doesn’t it look like this?”
I still don’t see the moon looking like a bridge or a
cross. I bend down to look more closely at the block – then I look back towards
the moon. I do see what she sees
now. The moon has white beams forming a
cross shining so brightly out of it.
I straighten back up and look – it’s just a bright
circular moon.
I bend back down and look – it’s a moon with white beams shooting
out of it shaping itself into a cross.
The window! It’s the window! When I stand up straight, I
am looking out of the top portion of the window and that part has no screen.
When I bend down to the bottom portion of the window – it has a screen. This is
the part of the window she is looking out of because of her height. She sees
the white beams forming a cross. The screen makes the light of the moon form
into a cross. Shift to see…
I bend back down and say, “I see it baby – I see it now.”
I pick her up so she can see what I saw at first. She looks and says, “Where did it go?” I put
her back down and she says, “Oh, there it is!” I told her how the screen is
making us see it differently. And then I explained how changing our perspective
– shifting our perspective – has the power to change everything.
When we change the way we see things – we can change
everything.
Oh how I want to see Him in everything. God sees us all
the time and it’s just a matter of focus for us, isn’t it? It’s just a matter
of shifting ourselves to see.
most days I pray to see through the lens of Jesus and
most days I rush. But this day, I saw. I saw through different eyes.
I could have missed this moment and just said, “Yes
honey, it is beautiful”- because the moon is. But by shifting my focus and
seeing it the way she saw it changed everything. I wonder if we can look at our
moments with God’s eyes and see things from a new perspective – how it might
change how we react to our moments throughout our day.
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