September 21, 2001
"God sees with utter clarity who we are.
He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness.
But when God looks at us that is not all he sees.
He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will someday become.
We sometimes say love is blind, but it is not so.
Love alone truly sees, sees with this double vision."
Love Beyond Reason
I
t took me a long time yesterday to see God, to catch that glimpse... do you remember that children's book, "Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, Awful, Very Bad, No Good Day"?? Yes, well mine felt something like that... I'm learning how getting on top of the emotion and confusion in a hard day is crucial to really seeing God's hand at work. It's important for me to be able to clear away the rubble in my mind quickly so that I'm not distracted in my purpose, my mission or my love for people. It is so hard to break out of my little world and be who i want and who i need to be. It encourages me to think and know that even as I wrestle to learn those things that God knows exactly who I am and he loves me just as I am but always with a vision of who he dreams for me to be!!
"But as for me it is good to be near my God.
I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge..."
Psalm 73:28