Nicole and Laura look through the eyes of faith as they examine the poetry of Louis Gluck and David Whyte. Where Gluck focusses on the struggle of the narrator with understanding her friend's faith, Whyte invites us to look at the "colours you have never seen before". To see with the eyes of faith entails not only glimpsing the light, but also the darkness, as Gluck invites us to consider the "unpleasantness" and the banality of tragedy. We are urged to watch in earnest, with eyes wide open, just as Whyte invites us to "see" the world as how God sees. The beauty of looking at the world through different prisms reminds us also that sometimes faith is like "brides leaping to a great height" just as how we can "fly free". To be fully known and seen as beloved, is what we long for and how beautiful it is to consider that He too looks on at us with gentleness and expansiveness of heart. We begin to see what a difference it makes when one looks through the eyes of faith and lives deeply rooted in one's identity as the beloved.
Check out the full texts of the poems discussed in this episode at these links and use them in your own contemplative practice!
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/celestial-music/
https://mindfulnesscourse.ie/second-sight-by-david-whyte/