{"id":12660,"date":"2020-06-30T05:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2020-06-30T05:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:13:48","slug":"our-hearts-have-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=12660","title":{"rendered":"Our Hearts have Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New land-scape and ocean-scape to take in this week. My Austin family and friends are in Port Aransas taking in everything beach and ocean for Brennan\u2019s 16th birthday celebration. I was the first one up and at \u2018em at 5 am to post my blog. Then I made my way to the beach to take in the magnificent beauty of the sun coming up over the ocean. It was a sight to behold. And, of all things God-given, I saw this cross. It was then I realized my heart must also have eyes because I sensed God\u2019s presence and realized I want my heart\u2019s eyes to see what He sees. I just need to open them up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That reminded me of a song: \u201cOpen the eyes of my heart, Lord. I want to see You.\u201d I want to see Him more than in my family and nature, the skies, and the oceans. I want my heart\u2019s eyes to open up to all His wonders and grace. That song makes sense as I read this scripture: \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they will SEE God.\u201d Matthew 5:8. That “pure in heart\u2019 must be the prescription for 20\/20 vision for seeing God! I want that vision!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A pure heart doesn\u2019t mean we are perfect people. If our purest intention is to see God, we will. I\u2019ve said it in so many of my blogs that while I can\u2019t see the Lord\u2019s physical form, I do see evidence of Him all around me. So, in that case, we should always be asking God to open our eyes to the many things in our life that speak to His presence. We can keep our eyes wide open as we look for evidence of God around us. It\u2019s amazing: The more we recognize even the smallest things as gifts from God, the more we start to realize how present He is in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If what I\u2019m saying seems too difficult to understand \u2013 the part about being able to SEE God, then maybe there is something dividing your heart and distracting you from seeing Him. That\u2019s when we ask God to help us SEE. It may be that it\u2019s a simple distraction of our technology gadgets or people who come between us and God in nature, in daily potential encounters when we have an awareness of Him. And, maybe, we need to look closer at the people around us — just maybe we\u2019ll see God in them as they help someone with food or clothing or encouraging words. The truth is \u2013 the more we purpose to place our focus on Him \u2013 in scripture, in people, in our daily activities, the more we’ll see Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love you, my precious friends. I believe with all my heart God isn\u2019t trying to hide from us. He\u2019s everywhere. He\u2019s just waiting for us to open our eyes to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmazing grace, how sweet the sound\u2026was blind but now I see!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New land-scape and ocean-scape to take in this week. My Austin family and friends are in Port Aransas taking in everything beach and ocean for Brennan\u2019s 16th birthday celebration. I was the first one up and at \u2018em at 5 am to post my blog. Then I made my way to the beach to take…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17806,17807,17808,1],"tags":[333,17800,156,1907,1210,9622,17803,40,17804,5447,17809,17802,17797,17798,17799,17805],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hearts-have-eyes","category-landscape","category-oceanscape","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing-grace","tag-beach","tag-birthday","tag-blessed","tag-blog","tag-gifts-from-god","tag-hearts-have-eyes","tag-inspiration","tag-landscape","tag-ocean","tag-oceanscape","tag-open-the-eyes-of-our-heart","tag-port-aransas","tag-pure-in-heart","tag-see-god","tag-waterscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12667,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/12667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}