“The Seen And The Unseen”
“The Seen and the Unseen”
By Rob Weddle
WHAT IS SEEN:
Stained ceilings, headaches, paperwork, dust, rust, unheard cries, night-sweats, depression, tattered carpet, scars on a worn and bloated face, beasts with brown eyes and baggy pants, a scratched and brain-straining computer monitor, bitterness, vampire mosquitoes, razor-sharp back pain, a blood-soaked towel on a paint-chipped floor, bags under weary eyes, revolting gas prices, family growing old and passing on, a friend’s betrayal, unyielding prison bars, weary tears, anger, throbbing leg pain, road-raging drivers, dying leaves, cheek-stinging wasps, stubbed toes, a runny nose, vomitous stomach aches and suffocatingly itchy wool sweaters
WHAT IS UNSEEN:
Freedom purchased with blood, hate-murdering love, a cool Spring breeze, child-like laughter, the souls of family who have grown old and passed on, gloom-crushing joy, God-sent forgiveness, heavenly peace, death-bought victory and heaven
Much more is seen by this human eye
Than remains unseen, but the time is nigh
When Jesus’ love will obliterate hate
Where life kills death at His evermore gate
For now I pursue the splendid unseen
And beg the concealed overshadow the seen
I delight in forgiveness (that tender, May wind)
Like a vagabond’s wish to which angels attend
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
