# Seeing God and being seen Day 3 > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God. ### Opening Prayer: *Then run, faithful souls, happy and tireless, keep up with your Beloved who marches with giant strides from one end of heaven to the other. Nothing is hidden from His eyes. He walks alike over the smallest blade of grass, the tallest cedars, grains of sand or rocky mountains. Wherever you go He has gone before. Only follow Him and you will find Him everywhere. (The Sacrament of the Present Moment by Jean-Pierre De Caussade)* #### Psalm for the Week: Psalm 11 #### The Lord Is in His Holy Temple #### To the choirmaster. Of David. *11 In the Lord I take refuge;how can you say to my soul,“Flee like a bird to your mountain,* *2 for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; 3 if the foundations are destroyed,what can the righteous do?”[a]* *4 The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.5 The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.6 Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.7 For the Lord is righteous;he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.* #### Scripture for the Day: Job 42:1-6 #### Job's Confession and Repentance *42 Then Job answered the Lord and said:2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’* *5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,but now my eye sees you;* *6 therefore I despise myself, and repent[a] in dust and ashes.”* #### Reading for Reflection: *Our mind’s desire is to know, to understand; but our heart’s desire is intimacy, to be known, to be understood. To see God with our mind would be to know God, to understand God; but to see God with our heart would be to have a sense of being known by God, or be understood by God.* *If there is a dream dreaming us, it will be God’s vision of us, and if we have a sense of being part of that dream, it will be our heart’s vision of God. Nicholas of Cusa in his Vision of God, while speaking of our vision of God, speaks even more of God’s vision of us. He has it that our seeing God consists of our having a sense of God seeing us: to see God is to see one who sees; it is to have an experience of being seen. (The Reasons of the Heart by John S. Dunne)* #### Reflection and Listening: silent and written #### Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself #### Song for the Week: Jesus Cast a Look on Me *Jesus cast a look on me, give me sweet simplicity. Make me poor and keep me low, seeking only Thee to know* *All that feeds my busy pride, Cast it evermore aside. Bid my will to Thine submit, lay me humbly at Thy feet* *Make me like a little child, of my strength and wisdom spoiled. Seeing only in Thy light, Walking only in Thy might* *Leaning on Thy loving breast, where a weary soul can rest. Feeling well the peace of God, flowing from His precious blood.* ### Closing Prayer: *O Lord Jesus, I look at you, and my eyes are fixed on your eyes. Your eyes penetrate the eternal mystery of the divine and see the glory of God. They are also the eyes that saw Simon, Andrew, Nathanael, and Levi, the eyes that saw the woman with the hemorrhage, the widow of Nain, the blind, the lame, the lepers, and the hungry crowd, the eyes that saw the sad, rich ruler, the fearful disciples on the lake, and the sorrowful women at the tomb. Your eyes, O Lord, see in one glance the inexhaustible love of God and the seemingly endless agony of all people who have lost faith in that love and are like sheep without a shepherd.* ​ *As I look into your eyes, they frighten me because they pierce like flames of fire my innermost being, but they console me as well, because these flames are purifying and healing. Your eyes are so severe yet so loving, so unmasking yet so protecting, so penetrating yet so caressing, so profound yet so intimate, so distant yet so inviting.* ​ *I gradually realize that I want to be seen by you, to dwell under your caring gaze, and to grow strong and gentle in your sight. Lord, let me see what you see—the love of God and the suffering of people—so that my eyes may become more and more like yours, eyes that can heal wounded hearts. (Intimate Moments with the Savior by Ken Gire)*