Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 1/19

    Photo by Miguel Nieves

My photographer friend sees the world

    with eyes I only wish I had.

He spies what my eyes miss:

    patterns, forms and fine designs,

        mysterious, playful beauty 

    sketched and traced in lines divine     

        -  right there - 

    if i could only see...

If I could only see, Lord,

    if I could only see...

If I could see the beauty hidden

    right before my eyes...

If I could see the artistry in

    how things fit together...

If I could see the symmetry 

    in what's askew, off-center...

 

If I could see your grand design 

    in mole hills and in mountains...

If I could see how things align

    while resting in no order...

If I could see how colors blend

    and bleed into a rainbow...

 

If I could see the beauty in the

    providentially accidental

        elements of life...

       

If I could see your glory, Lord,

    shaping and suffusing

        all the world around me...

If I could see the filigree, 

    the trace of grace

        you lace throughout creation...

 

Will you open up my eyes then, Lord?

    my soul's imagination?

        my vision of your beauty?

If I could only see, Lord,

    oh, if I could only see...

 

Amen. 

 

    Photo by Miguel Nieves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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