October 28, 2014

Today’s text

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Seeing

Beatific vision tradition calls

the seeing of the One who

sees in love, so different

from our seeing, obsessed eyes

compulsive, fixed on warts

and wounds, busy tongues

seeking every sore spot.

With delight the Seer sees

every curve and contour

of body and soul, eyes

lingering, caressing,

slowly moving, savoring

even the smallest the quiver

of lips upturned into the smile

that echoes the Divine Heart’s

joy, who sees and says, “mine,

mine, mine,” bursting with Love

at the sight of life filled

and revealing the Life who is.

Just so we are seen by

the Beauty who seeks

and savors Beauty

in all, inviting us to see

self and all so well, and

seeing to know in all we

see the One who always is …

and Who always is Love.

Seeing that we are seen

in love, vision is pure, and

we see with love through

eyes longing for the One

Love present in all that is, waiting

the day we see Beauty

and nothing more.

Pr. David L. Miller