The Magnifying Glass

Beloved, it isn’t news to you that a magnifying glass makes what­ever it is you’re viewing larger. Sometimes this is good. For those with impaired vision, it makes reading possible. Words that are simply too tiny to make out need magnification, even by those with perfect sight. Engravers, diamond appraisers, and surgeons, to name a few, are people whose jobs require assistance by magnification.

In our lives, it’s good to look at what we’re trying to make larger and why.

These could be very real matters. Financial trouble, job difficul­ties, relationship strife, abuse, illness, death, and even things like car trouble and a home falling into disrepair can steal our focus and mag­nify themselves so we feel utterly helpless. Suddenly all we see are our problems.

Friend, you can stop the magnification that makes your trials, your tears, and your torments larger than life. There’s no denying life can be difficult. Some days life feels like it’s made to give us hardship. Add people into the mix, people with free will to love and hate, help or harm, to light the path or to create roadblocks. We wonder if this will be the way it is for the rest of our lives.

This despair is made larger when the difficulties of life are all we focus on.

Beloved, God will help you even here. God knows what your life is like. God knows your challenges, how you feel about things, and what you focus on. God knows you better than you know yourself. Your Creator, the One who loves you regardless of your comings and goings, will gladly give you eyes to see tomorrow. Do you understand, Dear One? God will give you a more clean and vigilant lens through which to view the light of creation and the lightbulbs of creativity. This magnifying glass spotlights the lightworks in the world around you, no matter how dark it seems right now.

All you have to do is ask God for a new lens, a lens of discern­ment and discreetness to replace the skewed and skewering magnifi­cation of all that is in the way of a life of joy.

When you ask God to give you Creator-Vision, life will open. It might seem a little hard at first to view others with the same love and compassion as our never-giving-up-on-love Creator. Even view­ing ourselves this way can feel counterintuitive to so much of what we have been taught. The first step to change is honesty about where things currently are. In a collapse of illusion, look upon the ruins and remainders and say, “This is where I begin.”

Let God have all of that. For only God knows how to turn even our mistakes and failures into something usable and good. Isn’t that good news?

Magnify the good God has given you, Friend. The food you eat today. The air you breathe. The water you drink. The song you listen to most. Who is your friend? Can you call them? Make one change. Focus on one good thing today. Bring it to mind. Magnify it in mean­ing as something the True Light has given you to get through today.

More and more will reveal itself in the light of the Creator’s good­ness. God loves you, Friend. Ask for God’s vision to see yourself and your situation with love and compassion. Let God be your lens. Let God lead.

Be loved, Beloved. Be loved.

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