Mirror mirror...

...what do you see, among the people and amidst the breeze.

I like the phrase "a brave new world". It can mean so much or nothing at all. Someone might hear that phrase and think of a trail blazer or pioneer, either in terms of technology, culture, or simply discovering unknown lands. When I hear it I relate it to my own life. Surprise surprise, right? =P These days creating new technologies is left to those with the ability to do so. Discovering new lands, if it is even possible now, is again left to those who have a heart for it. Personally, my thoughts go to those who dig and search for the unseen. This weekend I had a discussion, a good one, about the unseen and in recent weeks I had a few other similar conversations. Talking and listening to others on the topic of how things connect and work out. How their is something, unseen, that moves in this world. Changing it makeing it work from the smallest bug to the largest revolution. Something that gets people together and on time. Something that creates benefits from a variety of situations which can be seen though often only with our 20/20 hindsight.

In the last conversation we spoke of the darker forces in this world. Those that haunt my steps and probably yours as well. Those evils that help us to fall and tell us we are failures for having fallen. Hopeing we will not get back up this time. As we discussed ways to combat such an enemy we recognized that it is real, though unseen. Then we moved on to how the good forces act and move among us. How, without our understanding and request they have moved to aid us in our quest. Putting the right people together, having the right words said, having one aid another. As we talked about instances (one after another) we recognized its presence there, though unseen. We moved on to speak of prayer. Communing with the good forces. Communing with our God and all that follow in His wake. Mentioning how such a communication line acts as a tangible blessing, though unseen. Sending aid to the pray-er as well as the pray-ees. It was nice to hear and consequently see what the prayer has been doing for my friend and I. It is hard to see such things untill you know someone is actually praying for you. Most of us don't look or wait to see a sigh that the prayer is heard if we don't know it is happening. But when you hear that someone is or has been praying fo you, you can look back and see if/when it effected your life. Perhaps in a small way, perhaps in a larger way. (Sometimes not at all, not every prayer is bound for a timely answer.) I have seen God respond to me in more ways than I can count. Prayers that were answered in one way or another. People who were saved physically, emotionaly, financially, or spiritually.

Anyway, the point was that their are so many things that you and I don't see unless we try. Even then we have to learn how to see them before they become clear. God and Satan, angels and demons, the light and the dark. It brings a smile to my soul to know that someone else sees what I see or when someone comes to realize that the unseen is not imaginary. I'd really like to be more specific about all this, but this is a journal not a essay. (^_^)

So when I hear the term "a brave new world" I have to smile on the inside, whether refering to the new world iteslf or those who venture into it.