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Alchemy of Sight

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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) 53 For this perishable part of us must put on the imperishable nature, and this mortal part of us, this nat