August 31, 2012

My Journey to God

God’s Eyes

God’s eyes gaze over all the Earth, and He knows each of us personally.
God sees every one of us, and has each of our personal interests as His children in His heart. He counts every hair on our heads.
Does God look at us from the outside or inside? He looks, brothers and sisters, right into our hearts. He looks down at us with eyes of such incredible love that it takes the breath away.
God knew us before we were born, and what God sees is different than what we see.
God’s eyes are beautiful.
I see God’s eyes in the beauty of a baby born to every mother.
I see God’s eyes in the holy priesthood and all the holy services, men and women giving their consecrated lives to Christ.
I see God’s eyes in reverence, in holy adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.
I see God’s eyes in children, full of wonder and faith.
I see God’s eyes in the face of a hardworking father or mother.
I see God’s eyes in the disadvantaged, the lonely, the convict, the drunk.
I see God’s eyes in the beauty of our land, the forest so green, the animals, the rising and setting sun.
I see God’s eyes in starving African children, persecuted Christians, missionaries.
I see God’s eyes at Mass, heads bowed, kneeling reverently in prayer.
I see God’s eyes in the sick, the poor, the dying man or woman receiving the last sacrament, receiving Jesus.
I see God’s eyes in Jesus, God’s Son, on the Cross, in the Blessed Sacrament, in every prayerful hymn, in my heart, in the newly ordained priest, in the baptized baby, in the saved and unsaved.
I see God’s eyes in the aborted baby, the criminal, the murderer, the desperate.
Yes, God’s eyes are fixed on them, too.
God’s gaze is everywhere, on the lovely and unlovely.
God’s eyes are our eyes, a whole world to love and save.
God’s eyes are beautiful.
The color of God’s eyes is … Love.

By Viola Maria Miller

(Viola Maria Miller is a member of St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville. She dedicated this reflection to Father Aaron Pfaff, administrator of the Batesville Deanery parish.) †

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