Alchemy of Sight
When the environment gets heavy…so many people with so much hurt…when the veil is peeled back and I am unavoidably aware of the trouble and heart-ache this side of heaven affords us… I feel I have to re-focus on eternal. That is where I find hope. I need to see past what is in front of me, what I see in black and white, in flesh and blood. Sharpen my spiritual eyesight and hearing. Examining through that God-cleaned lens external evidence in circumstance that would tear at my hope—at my confidence that He is good. He sees, He loves, He cares, He does. Alchemy. Its definition: any "magical" (a.k.a. Divine) power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. I bend in to see and hear differently; transmuting despair into hope and blessing. 1 Corinthians 15: 50-57 (Amplified Bible...