Dear Friends,
Optics, noun, “the way in which an event or course of action is perceived.”
For some, attending Dover High School could not have been more perfect. For others, that chapter couldn’t end soon enough. Not unlike how we perceive the impeachment process or the dangers associated with the Coronavirus. Our perception becomes our reality.
In 2006 I was working at Taylor University when a tractor trailer crossed the interstate median and took the lives of five of our students. Ten years after the accident, the mother of one of the students killed was asked to speak at the dedication of the memorial honoring those whose life had been tragically cut short.
Her remarks were brief but penetrating.
“I am seeing things differently now. What I could only see or feel then was ‘awful.’ But I am beginning to see that it was more than that… it was also ‘full of awe.’ Full of mystery. Full of a larger story that I am not meant to understand this side of heaven.”
The author of the book of Hebrews said it this way, “Let us worship God with awe.“
Whatever your situation or your journey, allow yourself the freedom to adjust your optics… to accommodate a larger story than you might naturally be able to see. The “optics of awe.”
Your classmate,
~Wynn
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9