All Knowing But Not Seeing

I get lucky every once in awhile and get to go out for an afternoon with one of the core members that I live with. He is the most observant person in the house without being able to see anything. His body limits greatly what he is able to do, but his mind his sharp. He knows much more than many of us think he does. I was teasing him about getting old and saying that I was getting old soon. He laughed at me and said that I have a few more years before that happens.

When one of the assistants here was teasing me about my relationship, he asked the core members if they knew who I'm involved with. There was lots of giggling, but no answer until Mike came and stood in the doorway of the living room. With a big smile on his face, he announced the name and then began to laugh. No one else believed him for a few seconds, but then I said "You're right Mike! How did you know?" I have no idea how he knew. I really don't. Without being able to see, he was able to know.

We place a large value on things that we can see. We like concrete knowledge and being able to touch what we can see. There is a problem with this though. We then begin to only believe in the things that we can see or touch. We only believe in the things that we are certain of. Some days, that's fine. It's all right to only trust in the things that we can see, but we can't do that all the time. When all we accept is what we can see, then we miss a lot of life. We miss faith and most of all we miss love.

Love is one of the things in life that you don't really get to see and you can't really touch. You can touch the people who love you, but you are unable to hold onto what they offer to you. You can't hold the love you are given in your hands and when you try to, you find that your hands are empty. The more you try and look for love, the less you will find. When you simply feel what is around you and stop looking for something, especially like love, you still won't be able to see it, but you will know. You will know because you will be able to feel it.

We rely so heavily on the five senses that we have. We really do have five. They are all great and can be important at different times. I know from living with someone who has lost most of his hearing and another who has lost his sight. Neither of them have suffered major loses in the emotion in their lives because of those things. They have learned to expand their lives in different directions because they have lost the directions they are able to use. They have learned more and know more because they are unable to touch the physical world in one way.

It is amazing all that we can learn without seeing, without touching and without hearing. We can learn more with simply being and being open, than we can when we seek something specific. Maybe one day we will be lucky enough to know with seeing. Maybe we will simply be able to trust.