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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 18: Heart Eyes


Oh she SEES you the moment she SEES you.

You know she SEES you

because she LOOKS right into your eyes

with her

HEART EYES

that grab you.

All because she SEES everything

with her innocent HEART,

with her child's HEART,

because she is only three years old.

Our precious granddaughter

who really SEES your

CHILD'S HEART

that is tucked deeply inside of you

that beats just like hers.

Oh if we would stop and

SEE like she does,

with our HEART EYES

that LOOK with GRACE

that LOOK with JOY

that LOOK beyond the outside shells that we live in,

because we all have a CHILD tucked deep inside us

that is so innocently pure

that shouts out

DO YOU SEE ME?

DO YOU REALLY ME?

The ME who GOD created.

The ME who is

you & me & everyone else

as

no one is exempt from

GOD being our CREATOR.

GOD SEES YOU

as HE LOOKS at you

with GRACE

&

with JOY

that LOOKS beyond the outside shell that you live in.

Oh what you learn through the eyes of a child

who makes you be in the moment

that you want to last forever.

My hubby and I just spent time

with our granddaughter

and her precious brother

who also

SEES you with his whole being

with his HEART EYES,

his one your old HEART EYES

that kidnap you the moment he LOOKS at you

as if you are the only human that exists in that moment.

How old are your HEART EYES?

Oh I have such young HEART EYES

because

I am GOD'S CHILD

who became HIS DAUGHTER

the moment I LOOKED into

HIS SON'S EYES,

that life changing moment

when my HEART became

so FULL of GRACE

so INDESCRIBABLY FULL of JOY

as HE took every BROKEN part of my HEART

and as HE still takes every BROKEN part of my HEART

that HE SEES

that HE LOVES

with a LOVE that kidnaps you in the moment

that you never want to leave that moment.

Oh how SEEING LIFE with HEART EYES

keeps you LIVING FULLY in the moment.

Oh how GOD uses a little girl

to turn me into a little girl,

as I LOOKED into the eyes of my granddaughter

whose eyes were LOOKING at just a bunch of fish,

yet who she SAW with her whole HEART

that it was so contagious

that it made me LOOK at a just bunch a fish

as not just a bunch of fish

but as GOD'S CREATIONS

just as

I am

and you are

and everyone else is.

How old are your HEART EYES?

Make them like a one year old

&

make them a three year old

by being enveloped

in GOD'S GRACE

that makes you just want to jump on

HIS lap

as

HIS CHILD

and cuddle so closely

because

you know that

GOD SEES you so deeply

and LOVES you so deeply

even more than

an one year old

and a three year old

who SEES my HEART.

If I can be so captured by the great LOVE of these little beings

it is so overwhelming indescribable

"to grasp how wide and long and high and deep

is the LOVE OF CHRIST" (Ephesians 3:18)

that you just have to stop and BELIEVE with a CHILD LIKE HEART.

So is that why I wept so deeply

after

I LOOKED into the EYES of my grandchildren

when it was time to say goodbye

because

I LOVE them so deeply

and because they brought me back to my

FATHER'S LOVE

that SEES me as

HIS CHILD

and who wants me to SEE HIM beyond everything else that

strives to steal

the JOY that is tucked so deeply into my HEART.

No wonder my granddaughter

was so saddened when she had to say

goodbye to a bunch of fish,

yet told her mommy with such a JOY

that the striped fish LOOKED right at her.

Oh don't allow anything to come between

THE JOY

of BELIEVING like a CHILD

by having HEART EYES

that SEE FULLY

beyond

every distraction

every hurt

every past mistake

every present worry

every future fear

because you

SEE with your HEART EYES~

"SEE what great LOVE THE FATHER

has lavished on us, that we should be called

CHILDREN OF GOD" (I John 3:1).

Don't you SEE?

What is striving so deeply

to DISTRACT you from

SEEING so deeply with your

CHILD LIKE EYES?

Will you join me and experience life through

the EYES of a CHILD

by

FASTING from

SEEING

the distractions

and instead

be

DISTRACTED by BEING HIS CHILD

and

SEEING with

your HEART EYES

just like your

"FATHER'S EYES"

(listen to the song below)


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