Close Your Eyes

Many people in our culture make love to be based on appearance. "I will only love you if you are lovable" is the montra of this ideology and it is widely held. But this morning while I was getting three of my babes from the childrens rooms after the gathering today I saw a couple of parents with the most beautiful little curly blond-headed boy. The parents, like all parents, were overjoyed to see their boy after hearing the sermon, but this was different! These parents were blind!! They would not see their boy, not today and judging from their condition, not ever. Yet they adored this son of theirs! A son whose eyes they will never inspect, whose curly ringlets will never know the caress of a mothers eyes. And yet my heart was moved deeply by the love on their faces for this child!



We moms love to say that we take one look at our babies and we love them! But what if we couldn't see them? Would our reaction to our children be the same if we had only ears to hear, hands to feel, nose to smell, and lips to kiss with?? I think that every single parents would benefit from some serious contemplation on this idea. Because so many people are caught up in appearence.

We get jobs on appearence.

We fall in love on apperence.

We show contentment based on appearence.


We go pick our college majors based on how they appear to others or ourselves.

We make friends on appearence.

We dress ourselve and our families on appearence.

We live almost solely on the gratifiction of one single sense. Our eyes. What pleases them, what annoys them, what draws them, what excites them.

Since when did our eyes become god??

I doubt I would ever hear those parents from my church say to their little boy, "Tattoos aren't allowed in my house!" or "I hate your pants, they are so ugly, go change them!" or "are you really going to wear your hair like that?"

I know those parents have their issues and maybe they are annoyed at their little boy at times, but I also know that they LOVE their little fella, no matter what he looks like! They see something precious and lovable even without eyes to see. So what do we see when we look at our children, grandchildren, husbands, wives, friends, family, collegues? Do we see someone who has to earn our affection by the pleasantness of their appearence or someone who is lovable just because they are them? Because you rejoice to be with them. You are thankful for their life. Because you have been blessed to be with another and not alone. Or do we simply reject because our one sense which really doesn't define anything tells us something that is arbitrary. What would you do if the people you loved were never seen by you....would you still love them??