"Crosses"....

For the rest of my life, I will never look at the sky in the same way I do now since my sister's homegoing. In the 8 short months of her illness, she taught us all to keep our eyes UP. I think she would be happy to know that by the grace of God alone, we are all trying to do just that. There are many days when I feel my eyes lowering to my earthly circumstances and hardships, but I hear her voice telling me to look UP. With blurred vision, I do my best, and God is always faithful to show me Himself.

I snapped this picture a few weeks ago, and I was struck by the multiple "crosses" that were represented in this one picture. I was having a particularly difficult day and I believe this was a gift to me, to help me refocus my blurry vision. Elliot would love this picture - although I know that her eyes are no longer blurred, and she is beholding with perfect vision what we can only see in part.

"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal".  

2 Corinthians 4:17, 18 

(The word "fix" is an action word, requiring something of us. It is not passive. In the Greek it means, "to make stable, to place firmly, fix to strengthen, make firm, render constant, render mentally steadfast, stand immovable).