View (Five Minute Friday)

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For those of you who've met me (or even seen a few pictures with my posts over the months) you'll notice I wear glasses. What you may not know is that they're VERY THICK glasses. My view without them is ... bluury at best. Unless you are standing right.in.my.face.  Got me to thinking how two folks can look at the same thing and see very different things, actually. If you hold an open book out in front of me and take my glasses away, I'll see pages. I'll see the edges. (If you hold it close enough anyway). But I won't see the words. I won't see the beauty of the illustrations. I'll just see shadows. Or maybe on a good day, splashes of color. BUT - give me my glasses, and woo-hoo, I am seeing all sorts of amazingness. Lines and outlines. Words and sentences - because my glasses correct the brokenness of my eyes and show me the up close reality of what is there.

That's how I think God views the world. We look, and we see betrayal. Tragedy. Brokenness. Confusion. But He has glasses. Frames of forgiveness, and bifocal lenses even - of grace, and mercy. And when He looks at US, He's wearing His glasses. So He can see with clarity, through grace and mercy, and forgiveness.

I think I'd do well to try on those glasses as well as my own.

Stop.