Jet lag seems to be running the show for me. It was just before 4 when I woke up AGAIN. I tossed and turned trying to go back to
sleep but I soon realized it was a mute point and I pulled myself out of
bed. The coffee pot was my first stop. As the coffee pot heated up I stood looking
out my window and it hit me how I was so blessed to stand in total quite and
watch the sun rise. All of a sudden my
view of the day ahead of me was taking on a new light.
A sunrise, what a blessing!
I asked God to join me, to speak to my heart and I told him to have his
way in me. In a whisper I began to sing
the words “Every breath that I take, every moment I am awake, Lord have your
way in me” To the melody of that song I whispered my own words. They were from my heart for God.
As I stood with my coffee in hand and watched the sun come
up I began to see something. I knew if I
was patient and waited, I would learn something special from God. As the sun began to rise I noticed the
darkness of my yard take on a new light. God had my undivided attention and he was
going to show me something. The sun
seemed to be coming up so fast and I could not get over the details in the
trees that I miss during the day. It was
beautiful and I wanted a picture so I left my post at the window only to make
my way down the dark hall to my room in hopes of finding my phone with out
tripping over something and waking my husband up. With my phone in my hand and my heart open to
whatever God had for me I returned to my spot at the window.
I am not sure I can begin to paint a picture of what a saw
because my words seem to be a feeble attempt to describe the beauty of a
sunrise. The sun was off in the
distance so at first the horizon began to unfold in front of me and what looked
like a black blob of nothing began to become different trees all different
heights and shapes. I could make out
what in the distance much better than what was in my yard in front of me
because the light of the sun had not reached my yard fully. As time went by I took another picture from
the same spot and I began to see that I could make out my driveway and other
things in my yard better. God was
bringing into the light the world in front of me. It was while trying to take the pictures I
began to see the something special in what was unfolding in front of me.
With each moment the beauty of my yard was becoming more and
more clear to me as the “SUN” shone it’s light upon it. I noticed the beautiful pink and yellow
flowers in my yard that a few minuets before where covered in the
darkness. They had been right in front
of my face but I could not see them.
With out realizing it at first I was singing, “Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved
a wretch like me, I once was lost but now am found was BLIND BUT NOW I SEE” I
was drawn to the colors of my flowers that had been right there in front of me
and yet I could not see their beauty in the darkness. I
raised my camera to take a picture of them and bingo the lesson from God hit me
right in the eyes! When I looked at the
flowers with just my eyes I could see them clearly under the light of the
sun. What I was really seeing outside was lost on my camera in the darkness due to the cameras limited perception .
I tried to use my flash but that only reflected off the window and into
my eyes. I wanted so badly to get a
picture but the stupid camera on my phone only hid them in the darkness. I have to admit I must have looked a little
strange as I stood in my window raising my camera up and than dropping it back
down over and over to compare how different my surroundings looked depending on
if I used my eyes and the light of the sun or the camera.
Are you picking up what I am putting down? God was using that moment alone with me to
teach me something. Today's lesson for me
was…. are you looking at your life/your surroundings through the eyes of the
“SON” (in this case the “SUN”) or are you only seeing your life/ your
surroundings through the eyes of the “WORLD” (in this case the “camera”)
When I looked at my yard without my camera, with nothing but
the sun’s light on it, I could see so much beauty, so much detail and I was
blessed. When I raised my camera to look
at my yard it was like putting on blinders.
It became a skewed picture of what was really in front of me. The beauty was hidden because it was darker
looking through my camera.
“Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like
me. I once was lost but now I am found
was BLIND BUT NOW I SEE”. I stood
there in my window and let the words of that song hit me in a way they had
never spoken to me before. How easy it is for us to become blind to all
God has for us. We can so easily get
caught up in what the world sees as good that we miss the whole picture. We have to be careful that we do not fall
into what the world sees as acceptable because when we do we are living in
darkness. The picture we will get will
be much like the skewed picture of the sunrise over my yard I got today. They beauty of my yard could not truly be
seen with my camera. To truly be seen it
had to be looked at with nothing but the “SUN” shining on it.
Here are the flowers that I could see as clear as the nose
on my face when I looked out my window but in the picture I took of my yard they
are hidden in the darkness. I had to go
outside and get up close to them to get them to show.
I still found beauty in the sunrise even when I got it on my
camera but I am thankful for the lesson God gave me today. Just like the song says… “I once was blind
but now I see”. When we truly see the
light we are no longer blind. The world
longs to keep us in darkness but God wants us to see all there is and in his
SON we can do just that. Have a blessed day J
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