THE WAY WE SEE

Frederick Buechner wrote, “If you look at a window, you see flyspecks, dust, the crack where Junior’s Frisbee hit it. If you look through a window, you see the world beyond.” 

It is kind of like a funnel: you can look out of the small end of it or the large end of it. The way we look is the way we see. Or as Buechner writes, we see ‘at’ or ‘through.’

We can see negativity, doom, destruction, death and defeat, conspiracy theories, crooked politics, economic collapse, etc. or we can see hope, help, love, change, positivity, agricultural regeneration, plastic being deposed of properly, children being warm and fed…it is all in the way we see things. It is called seeing by faith.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” Jesus