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to help you encounter the divine presence of God all throughout your day.

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In elementary school, our science teacher brought in a shiny, green,

chrysalis, hanging from a twig that she had cut from a bush.

And within the protective casing, the caterpillar was radically transforming its body.

For weeks, we watched an amazement as the new creation eventually emerged as a monarch butterfly.

Well, this metamorphosis is not about being a caterpillar or a butterfly, but really about the

journey from caterpillar to butterfly. The process of becoming something new,

but it often involves struggle and is not always easy. The process is quite similar to our own

spiritual transformation. Reconciliation is the end of our separation from God.

But do you ever seem separated from God? Do you see your new world with old eyes

longing to be new? Well, this meditation from 2 Corinthians chapter 5 is a reflection on a

new way of seeing, a new way of being. Now, I want you to see the world now with restored vision.

Just allow your view of yourself and your view of others to become compatible with how God

sees everything. God's sight now in harmony with yours.

So to begin, whether resting in the first rays of morning sun or the approaching shadows of

evening, allow the next 15 minutes to be a retreat to contemplate seeing with new eyes.

Just begin now to rest in restored life.

As your eyes begin to close now without effort,

the center on this place of balance for a still moment,

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