Through the Eyes of the Son

Isn't it amazing how we filter all of life through our own experiences in order to make sense of it all? Today we went to the park with a friend and her kids. On the way home, Jake said "Mommy I had a lot of fun at the park today." I said " I am glad, Mommy had a lot of fun to." He rode in silence for a minute or so and said "But mommy you didn't play at the park."

I read a caringbridge post a few days ago from a lady in our church who is battling cancer. She talked about how we worry about the future because we can only see life through our small little lens. Today when Jake said this to me it made me think about a song someone we know wrote about Jim Elliot's quote "He is no fool who gives up what He can't keep to gain that which he can not loose." In part of the song he says "he is no fool who sees the world through the eyes of the Son, and he is no fool who sees the world in the life of just one." It had made me wonder what exactly does it take for this to be true in my life - that I train myself to filter all of life through the eyes of the Son and that I train myself to see the world in the life of that one person I am dealing with at any moment.

Jake, just like me most often, only saw the experience through his perspective and to him I didn't have fun because all I did was sit on a park bench. He responded to me based on that assumption -as I so often do to others.

I long to learn how to see the world through the eyes of Christ.