http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2009/03/have-you-looked-in-a-mirror-lately/ Create your future. Solve problems. Impact eternity. Live - really live - today. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2009/03/have-you-looked-in-a-mirror-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 Mary Ann Thomson Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:00:12 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=1188#comment-1097 Because my right eye is diseased, when I look in the mirror, I wince in pain at what I look like. I often wear lightly shaded sunglasses indoors to hide my eye so I don't gross others out. That said, in spite of the fact I think I look awful, my family and friends assure me they don't even notice my eye when they look at me. How blessed am I????!!! And that is how God sees us. Not the icky parts of us, the diseased eye, the extra weight, the bad hair cut or what ever. He sees our HEART!!!! He doesn't even see the dirty parts of our hearts. Jesus is the filter that God usues to look at us. We are a blessed people. I feel I am in good company with my eye looking the way it does. The Apostle Paul was said to have an eye disease so bad that people would cross the street to avoid him. And while I may continue to wear my "indoor" sunglasses so as to not freak out the visitors I greet on Sunday mornings, I am at peace knowing that God sees me unblemished....and I am at peace with that. Mary Ann Thomson Child of God Blessed Wife of David Mother to Margaret Momo to Joel and Miles Because my right eye is diseased, when I look in the mirror, I wince in pain at what I look like. I often wear lightly shaded sunglasses indoors to hide my eye so I don’t gross others out.
That said, in spite of the fact I think I look awful, my family and friends assure me they don’t even notice my eye when they look at me. How blessed am I????!!! And that is how God sees us. Not the icky parts of us, the diseased eye, the extra weight, the bad hair cut or what ever. He sees our HEART!!!! He doesn’t even see the dirty parts of our hearts. Jesus is the filter that God usues to look at us. We are a blessed people.
I feel I am in good company with my eye looking the way it does. The Apostle Paul was said to have an eye disease so bad that people would cross the street to avoid him. And while I may continue to wear my “indoor” sunglasses so as to not freak out the visitors I greet on Sunday mornings, I am at peace knowing that God sees me unblemished….and I am at peace with that.
Mary Ann Thomson
Child of God
Blessed
Wife of David
Mother to Margaret
Momo to Joel and Miles

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