Learn to See Day
Edward Hays
The Old Hermit's Almanac
Forest of Peace Publishing Co.

The Native American elders teach the necessity of looking at the world twice if you truly want to see what's there.  Reeducate your eyes today to look carefully at things as common as an ant or the way sunlight falls on a leaf.  Then look again as you focus your eyes on the edge of what is visible. Seeing what is "on the edge," the Native Americans believe, allows you to see visions, the unspeakable, the holy ones who are invisible, and the other side of the natural.  They teach that those who only see what is before them are blind.

Jesus said, "Let those with eyes see."  Practice today looking twice at as many things as possible and you will be blessed, for blessed are the eyes that see. The great seventeenth century poet, William Blake, once observed, "If the doors of perception were cleansed of habit and routine, one would see everything as it is, infinite."

What is needed for such seeing is not new glasses, but a vision cleansed of habit and routine of what is limited only to the surface of things.  Today could be a day to wash out your eyes by closing them and letting the healing powers of holy darkness wash over them.  Pray the prayer of the blind, "Lord, that I might see," and then open your eyes to the infinite.

Reflection
Lord, that is may see especially
The gifts that you have given my brothers and sisters
So that I may see them as you see them. crsr