Do you remember the visual puzzle books? The ones with images hidden. You had to look just the right way, soften your gaze, and wait for the magic to appear. If you kept squinting or tried too hard, no luck. If you had a preconceived idea of what you were going to see you may not find what the artist had in mind.
Origin uncertain, but attributed to a Chinese photographer capturing image in melting snow.
SOFTEN TO SEE CLEARLY
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” Matthew 6:22 CSB
REWARD COMES WHEN YOU LOOK BEYOND
“I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work.” GOD’s Decree. “For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think. Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They’ll do the work I sent them to do, they’ll complete the assignment I gave them.”
Isaiah 55:8-11 MSG
Heavenly Father,
Soften my gaze. Loosen my grip on my own ideas, expectations, beliefs, and biases.
Be my vision, Lord.
Amen
