"Her eyes have their own vocabulary. What a beautiful language to learn"
There's a lot of things people first take notice of when they meet someone, and for me, it's a person's eyes. The eyes reveal so much about an individual and it goes so much deeper than the beautiful mixtures of unique colors within the iris. They tell a story, take others on a journey, leaving them wondering what that person has lived through.
Our eyes are the part of us that takes in every moment, every experience we've lived through whether it was uplifting or heart-wrenching...they capture it all like a camera set on long exposure. They've held every tear that's been cried and every ounce of joy that’s been felt. They contain the secrets of the past and the hopes for the future in which no one may have knowledge about except for God.
Isn't it mind-blowing that we can never know what things look like through another's eyes? That we can only experience a glimpse of it when they invite us in and take the time to get to know them and share their perspective?
How is it that this seemingly 'small' part of us can reveal so much?! That God made our eyes so unique to each one of us that it is something that can speak great measures into someone's life without a verbal word even having to be said.
And as the year's pass and time takes its toll, you still have these eyes. The same eyes that first opened the second you were born into this world, the same eyes someone may have fallen deeply in love with 20 years ago. Their eyes always being the thing that their gaze falls upon, falling in love over again through the look that was first shared many years ago.
It being something that never gets boring or tiresome, something constant and always revealing so much to each other even as the years go on. The eyes are something that doesn't change while the rest of physical body may. Sight and vision may fade, but the experiences and memories taken in with them will forever be held within.
I can't help but be in complete awe of this small yet powerful feature the Lord designed and blessed us with, it's truly mind-boggling when you take a moment to think about it...How intricately He designed every aspect of our being, of our unique existence here on earth, of the things He knew our eyes would take in.. it really does leave you breathless.
For we truly are …. “fearfully and wonderfully made…” and that His “works are wonderful, I know that full well.”- Psalm 139:14 NIV
"If only eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideals of beauty would be"
