“Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now I’m found. T’was blind but now I see.” This song is very old, but it’s message is timeless. This song is not talking about the physical as much as the spiritual. It talks about being saved by God and His grace, and how this saving has allowed the song writer to live and see through his heart. This new sight allows him to see God in everything, and by seeing God, the true light, he is never going in the wrong direction. “Amazing Grace” says a lot, and it speaks directly to us as a class as we learn to take a step back a put on our spiritual glasses as I’ve always called it. In particular we are learning what a sacrament is, beyond those given to us through scripture. As a class we are using each other’s stories and the stories of publis
hed peoples to aide us in our quest. We are learning what it truly means to see, looking beyond the physical and into the spiritual, connecting us to God.
We also looked at the story of Andre Dubus. He focuses on an aspect of seeing that seems more simplistic, but can often be harder to do, and that is being able to see God in things. Since God is in everything as Dubus points out, “God is in me, as he is in the light, the earth, the leaf”, you would think this would be easy, but it is not. Dubus says, “If I were much wiser, and much more patient, and had much greater concentration, I could sit in silence in my chair, look out my windows at a green tree and the blue sky, and know that breathing is a gift; that a breath is efficient for the moment; and that breathing air is breathing God.” What this quote is basically saying is if we look beyond our self, we
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