Seeing through our dreams and scars

 

SEEING THROUGH OUR DREAMS AND SCARS

Copyright 2021 Don Ray.  Feel free to print and share.

What would I see?

I'm not asking to see anymore.

I will see what I'm supposed to see.

I see blessings.

I ask not for visions but for open eyes to see what is right in front of me.

Peace in not knowing.  Peace in the condition.

Peace with the changes of time.

 

The perspectives of age are not necessarily right, but instead reflect what we became.  The perspectives of youth are distorted by what we wish to become.  Scars and imagination distort our views from either end of life.  Fortunately, in between life keeps us sufficiently occupied to not be too deceived by the distortions of our dreams and scars.

 

Most of all we are blind to what we are.  That also is just as well.  

 

Eventually we figure out there is very little to see that is not of our own making.  If this leads to the further deception that there is nothing beyond that of our own making our souls are rendered destitute and hopeless.

 

With luck and faith, we will discern that in the absence of specific sights and visions there is still much to perceive.  We want to see, for seeing is delightfully specific and incontrovertible.  But what matters, what is real, is not constrained to this temporal - corporeal existence discernable by photons impinging upon retinas.  

 

In this life there is very little to see beyond our worldly contrivances, but there is an infinity to sense, discern, and know.  Life consists of learning these more subtle discernments that are liberated from corporeal perceptions.  Soul consists of what we do with those discernments.  

Copyright 2021 Don Ray.  Feel free to print and share.