Navel Gazing

I have found that I am most discontented with life when I am focusing on me. When I effectively stare at my "navel" I really can't see anything else. I see my disappointments, my failures (or lack of success), my problems, my heartache and my my my. . . .

The past several weeks my church has made a concerted effort to rip our collective eyes off our own navels and to see what's around us. Not only see, but do something.

As I have been invovled in looking past my pudgy thighs, my extra helping of belly, and my less than lovely triceps, I have been amazed at how my eyes have been opened and my appetite awakened for serving the Lord. I'm positively ravenous.

This song is a new cry of my heart. Check it out and see what God would have you to see this beautiful weekend of celebration!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OihvG607W-c

Boy, how differently we would see things, people, life if we had HIS eyes.

Thank you for sharing that song.....

Wow, an excellent song!  This song truly touched my heart and I love the music.  What an eyeopener to what "I keep missing".  I had never heard of Brandon Heath or this song - "Give Me Your Eyes". 

What touched me is not only having God's eyes to see but to have His heart for those who are forgotten.

I believe we have an amazing gift to share those who are "lost" or "forgotten" as the song describes. In fact, we are surrounded by people who have no idea what the love of Christ actually means.  Partly because Christians fail to love. I have failed in this and am learning more and more how to love.

I also think, we need to ask God for His eyes to see OURSLEVES the way He sees us. We can tend to become so critical and so convinced of our own poor self image (or conversely our own inflated egos) that we are not nearly as effective as we can be in serving our Lord.

Give me your eyes, Lord!

That was a wonderful song. I am so new in my faith that I hopw that God will show me what he sees for me.  I am a nurse at a hospital and I know that there are so many opportunities threre that I may not see.

I am so ditaught with my lack of self control with dieting. I keep praying for help. God saw me through and gave me strength that I needed to quit smoking 2 years ago. I know that I need this help/guidance again.

Stephenie