What are you seeing?

When you look at people, what do you see, and in what do you look at?
Ask yourself that...
For those who truly believe that they look at the heart, if you saw someone that you loved, with a new face, something that was the result of something not planned for... would you be able to love that person the same way?

I heard a man speaking in one of biola's chapels a couple Valentine's Day back, about truly looking at, and falling in love with a person's heart. He said that, he came to this rough realization when his wife got breast cancer, and she lost all of her beautiful long hair, which he absolutely loved, and both of her breasts were removed. She lost the things that she believed made up part of her womanhood... and he admitted that she did not look as beautiful as before, and had to face his own perception... a reality of being human, but a reality that hurt in so many ways.

As I'm sitting here, listening to a story of a girl with a disease that caused the bones in her face to grow into a massive deformity, I can't help but think, what would I think if I saw her? Could I see her as a human being at first glance? The nurses who first helped her, said they first thought, "Oh My God, this is a human being..." It is rough, because we are all human, and we understand only what we know, and have, and when something is wrong on another human face, it is like reality hits us for a moment, and we become dumb-founded.

This is something that I will admit to always tripping up on, but something that I try my best not to do. I fight to be seen as the young woman that God sees me, and I need to fight to see others the same. And when we stop fighting to see others the way that the lord sees them, and become content in one place, we stop growing, and we become just like ancient ruins: overgrown, cracked, and crumbling to pieces.