Livin' Wide Eyed in Wonder and Belief

Luke 11 (The Message)

Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. 
If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. 

If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. 

Keep your eyes open, your lamp burning, so you don't get musty and murky. 
Keep your life as well-lighted as your best-lighted room.

Scripture speaks into our live in situations that we would least expect it.  When taking pictures of family at our Veldhouse Christmas in July at the Cabin, I took this picture of Addie's eyes, and this passage came to mind.

I read through Luke last fall out of The Message, and this passage caught my attention then, I didn't consider what it would look like to catch the idea of that Scripture passage in a photograph until this weekend.

Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body.

If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light.

If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar.
Keep your eyes open, your lamp burning, so you don't get musty and murky.

Keep your life as well-lighted as your best-lighted room.

Addie caught her first fish at the cabin Saturday, and then her uncle Brian filleted it, and her daddy cooked it for her.  It was a yummy fish.  Children can teach us a lot about living life wide eyed.

And a little about fishing too.