Five Minute Friday: See

Last updated on: January 10, 2014 at 11:17 am by Cynthia Schrage

Five Minute Friday: See 2014-01-10T11:17:40-04:00 Cynthia Schrage

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I don’t just want to use my eyes. I want to see. I want to get beyond the surface, beneath the skin.

“Open the eyes of my heart; I want to see You.” ~ Paul Baloche

I want to see.

I appreciate beauty. I do. I am deeply appreciative of the loveliness of the world around me.

I take many pictures of things that move me. Most of them never make it past the phone or the computer. I am only just learning to see as a photographer.

But there is so much more to see than what I can compose in the viewfinder. There is so much more to see beyond even what I can perceive with my heavily corrected vision. There is so much more to see than what I am already seeing.

“On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” (It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.) ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I want to see with the heart. I want to see the essentials. I want to see rightly.

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I’m joining the flash mob of writers over at LisaJo Baker’s place, which you can find here (for today’s offering), or by clicking on the picture to the right (for the general gist). The basic idea is that you spend five minutes of writing, generally unedited (I correct typos, WAY too OCD not to do that), on a prompt that she provides on Thursday just after ten p.m. via a tweet. Interested? Write something. Link up. Spread the word.

Chandler: Day 3 (bran52chan.wordpress.com)
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” (playdancedream.wordpress.com)
Review of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (crobertsblog.com)
Worship Band Workshop by Paul Baloche (worshipteamforum.wordpress.com)

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