Seeing and.....seeing

Just back from honeymoon and still feel a bit dazed and in another world! Anyway, welcome to my blog, don't worry this site is not all about me! The reason I mention my honeymoon and being in another world is I noticed in the last few weeks that when your mind is focused on certain things you notice things more. Let me explain.

In the run up to my wedding I was thinking about wearing a wedding ring, I have never been one for jewellery and always feel a bit camp when wearing anything. My mind being focused on this meant I noticed other peoples wedding rings, I think I can safely say before that I had never really noticed other peoples jewellery. Take another example, if I tell you to not think of pink elephants what is the one thing you do. Or if you have ever painted anything, when you spend time looking at something intently you begin to see lines you didn't notice before, colours begin to appear. Or how about one of those 3d drawings that you need to stare at and let your eyes go a bit crossed before you see the 3d picture.

The point of all these illustrations is that sometimes we miss things in life because we don't really look. We think that 3d picture is just a mass of dots, we don't notice a wedding ring because we don't really look. For years I thought I knew what life was about, thought I understood what I saw, then life took some turns and I realised I hadn't really looked that intently. I had not really seen what was in front of my eyes.

Could it be that you are missing something in your life, could it be like me that you think if I just get that thing then I will be happy, or if I just get that job promotion or if I just get that bigger house, or that car I will be happy.

I think we all have something missing in our lives, our purpose, our meaning, our identity until we meet with Jesus Christ. More than that, we have an eternity to think about, will you begin looking that bit more intently, just beyond the superficial MTV world and beyond... start looking?