what do you want? the place of seeing God

Week six, chapter six of Journey Reading:  Ann Voskamp's "One Thousand Gifts."

Congratulations! If you are still reading with me, you are now half way through this book! I am enjoying this journey with you and anticipate more great conversations.

I really appreciated her struggle with seeing, feeling, experiencing God in all His glory while changing diapers, doing laundry, and taking out the trash. I love those moments when God is so real I am sure I can feel Him, convinced that His glory is passing before me. But then I go back to the dishes and the floors and the errands and the bills and...and I feel alone and disappointed with life and God. As Ann says "how do you open the eyes to see how to take the daily, domestic, workday vortex and invert it into the dome of an everyday cathedral?" (pg 121)

snuggles with little ones
moments alone to write
revelation that comes from quiet listening
joy in a finished project

I am excited to 'see' her explore the concept of Jesus being the eye within that allows me to see God's glory everywhere, in all things, at all times. I was a little concerned that she was headed the way of the hammer. As the saying goes:  when you have a hammer, all the worlds a nail. If I am an eye, all of God's glory is visual. I believe I was created with five senses because simply seeing isn't enough to behold all of God. But, if Jesus is the eye within me then His perfection would lead my senses to 'see' God and all His Glory.

So, what do you want? Well, let me rephrase that...what do you want from God? from life?

Do you struggle to remember the captivity He has freed you from? How do you remember what God has done in your life?

What about the 'eye'? Do you want to be the eye?

"One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek...all the days of my life,

to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord, and to seek him in his temple."

Psalm 27:4