How's my Eye?

"The hypocrite is like the waterman, that looks one way and rows another; the true Christian like the traveller, that has his journey’s end in his eye." ~ Matthew Henry

This morning I was reading Matthew 6:22...

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!"

.... pondering it's meaning and how the eye connects to the heart. Blue, brown, hazel those don't tell you much about the heart. Squinty, lazy, cross-eyed, don't tell much about the heart. God looks upon our hearts, and the health he is concerned with here is spiritual not physical. My eye, if it is a lamp, lights the way, implying direction. A lamp also reveals what was in darkness, like a flashlight which shines all the way to my heart. What is my eye focused on today? What is it focused on in life? The direction of my gaze, is my goal and my direction. I am to be a traveler with my eye on the journey's end. God's glory is the journey's end. Did I wake up this morning with my eye focused on God's glory? How can my day and my heart glorify Him? If I'm not rowing in the right direction, where am I headed? Lots of questions. God wants our gaze to be upon him, not wandering here and there or over our shoulder (you know what happened with the over the shoulder glance...I don't want to be a pillar!) The things of this world are like a shiny lure to a big fish, but in the end lead to death. There are so many worthless things which can turn my eye, but I have a Saviour who is glorious. Lord, help me today to keep my gaze on you, You are better.

The Day Before, Easter, Today

Changable, that's how I'd describe our weather over the past few days. These top two shots were the day before Easter when we got several inches of new snow. Dakota is obviously enjoying it more at this point than the humans , who've been led to believe that Easter is in the SPRINGTIME...
I was wondering how all the folks planning Easter egg hunts would like this weather. It would be easy to spot the eggs in the white snow I guess, UNLESS you buried them, hee...hee....

Still beautiful even if we're ready to say goodbye winter!

Wonderful worship at SGC, and happy chocotate grins preceded the most anticipated time of celebrating with dear friends.The Easter gathering was tons of fun! Below, the collegiate and almost collegiate guys having a little fun during dinner~ Dinner was followed by an Apples to Apples game with 15 players... all at one table...

Today, we took Matthew back to GCC, it was supposed to be an a.m. trip and prolonged itself to become a p.m. trip. This is a little pony that I always admire, NO, I do not need or want another horse (but he's sooooo cute!) We passed him on the way back, as you can see the weather did change from Sat to Mon.
Now a deep breath for the family as we depart from a happy, busy few days. The Lord blessed us with the sweetest times with our son, with our friends and with Him.