Seeing Revisited

In giving His gifts, sometimes He gives a gift of sight with which to see the condition of His children. While the gift may be the occasion for a deep consolation, at the same time, we see not what we like, but what He wants us to see. The seeing can be painful, gut wrenching and terrible, in that we can apparently do nothing to lift up those we see. He has a way of imparting the suffering on us, so that we see as He saw on the cross the day He died.

At the saem time, it has a grating way of diminishing us, which is befitting His messengers who are meant to be conduits of His love. But as such, we nevertheless grow and experience His love, and marvel that such joy could coexist with so much pain.

A person in such a state can be forgiven if he is weighed down, weary and in considerable misery. Few if any see this, but if they do, they recognize the ocean of love contained within. Yet with the invisible gifts of His love, He waits for us to reconstruct the world, torn to pieces and laid low to die, slammed to the earth in rage and hate.

Our world contains the angels of God, and His Holy Spirit, and legions of hellleaping up  like great flames to scorch the earth and consume all who get too close. The pain of such a condition is beyond human words. Thus He prays for us, cradles us in His arms and reassures us with what we have scarcely seen,

It is needless to say, that those who see, need your prayers, so that at least, they are not discouraged.