Love releases sight. We can see one another to the degree we love one another. I can only help you to the degree I love you. We also can help one another to that measure. Skills don’t transform us or others, love does. Skills come from loving deeply over time, learning the rhythms of care. Skills in helping one another, are learned by loving deeply.

  Love conversely transforms sight. We are able to see accurately to the degree we love.

 Beauty is in the “I” of the beholder. Do the degree we engage in love, we are able to see ourselves and one another. For we are gaining more of God’s eyes on the other, and ourselves as we engage in Love. We are seeing more through His Lens. For God is Love.

 In doing so, in taking the risk of love rather than retreat, defense, or assault, we ourselves are transformed, for we come to appreciate how deeply He actually cares for the other, and sees them as they are and will be. In doing so, we hear our own names whispered in Love. We start to sense that we are each beloved. We are then both, when engaged in Love, transformed closer to who we actually are! Love brings us closer to our true selves, and calls forth the real in the other by our active heart gazing.

 To the degree we risk moving in this love encounter, we see both ourselves and the other into being. Love births true identity!