Things Unseen
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
I awoke in time for the sunrise this morning. When first I went with my cup of coffee to my study and looked out at the view, I saw nothing but fog and a mist hanging over the valley and lake. Suddenly, the sun shone through just a bit and for just a while. But in that moment, it showed me something that under more typical conditions I would not have "seen". What first caught my eye was a cobweb nearby built within a small square of wires of the fence. I quickly retreived my binoculars to get a closer look at the web. I occupied myself for quite a time looking closely at this particular artwork of a spider.
Then I gazed beyond my immediate view and another caught my eye. And then yet another.
Suddenly I realized they were all about me in the trees and that I would never have seen them had the weather conditions been any different. Something normally invisible was made visible to me with a shift in lighting conditions and therefore to my perception of what I saw.
How often is this true in life? I look but I do not see. I listen but I do not really hear. My perception of things is so often filtered by the cobwebs in my mnd that I fail to see the intricate patterns of beauty in nature, in people, and in others' ideas or perceptions. Perhaps this lesson taught me this morning will stay with me a while so that I may always "see" whether the object of sight is visible or not.
I awoke in time for the sunrise this morning. When first I went with my cup of coffee to my study and looked out at the view, I saw nothing but fog and a mist hanging over the valley and lake. Suddenly, the sun shone through just a bit and for just a while. But in that moment, it showed me something that under more typical conditions I would not have "seen". What first caught my eye was a cobweb nearby built within a small square of wires of the fence. I quickly retreived my binoculars to get a closer look at the web. I occupied myself for quite a time looking closely at this particular artwork of a spider.
Then I gazed beyond my immediate view and another caught my eye. And then yet another.
Suddenly I realized they were all about me in the trees and that I would never have seen them had the weather conditions been any different. Something normally invisible was made visible to me with a shift in lighting conditions and therefore to my perception of what I saw.
How often is this true in life? I look but I do not see. I listen but I do not really hear. My perception of things is so often filtered by the cobwebs in my mnd that I fail to see the intricate patterns of beauty in nature, in people, and in others' ideas or perceptions. Perhaps this lesson taught me this morning will stay with me a while so that I may always "see" whether the object of sight is visible or not.
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