I need my songlasses

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It's finally spring where I live. The grass is green and growing and the trees are sprouting leaves. After a seemingly endless gloomy season, the sun is once again shining more than not. And I finally need to wear sunglasses.

As much as I love the bright sunshine, sunglasses are almost a necessity when it comes to driving and just being out and about. When I forget or can't find my sunglasses, I grumble and complain. I squint and look down a lot. When I remember them, I look up and out, free of glare, eyes wide open, and rejoice in the sunshine.

It made me wonder....

What if I thought of my sunglasses as songlasses? What if I looked at everything as if looking through the loving eyes of Christ? What if I looked at every ugly, every different, every unpleasant, every uncomfortable, every unhappy I come across, in whatever form I come across it, with loving eyes?


Through eyes filled with Christ's love, things would look pretty different.


And do everything in love.  1 Corinthians 16:14

But before I am able to do in love, first - I must see in love.

National Day of Prayer,  May 2, 2013