The God of the Bible is a God who sees. He is all-knowing and ever-present, unlike us. We are prone to missing what is right in front of us. We forget things, we lose things, we have a limit to what we know, and our strength is insufficient to take us to the next day. We often go through the motions of day and it looks something like this:

Wake up → Eat (maybe) → Scroll for a bit→ Unconsciously (or very consciously) critique and complain about what’s going on around us → Do whatever major tasks take up the bulk of the day → Eat, again (hopefully) → Scroll some more → Sleep → Do it all over again.

What happened in between those tasks? What took place in the travel from one destination to the other? Without realizing it, we’ve missed so many things, and truth be told, many times, we are so consumed with ourselves that we don’t even care to pay attention to those around us.

I can’t help but wonder, how different would life be if we took more time to notice?

Now, I’m not advocating that you try and be a “know-it-all,” but, I am confident that an observant eye — specifically one that is surrendered to the Spirit of God — will begin to see so much more in life, and gain a perspective that can only come from Jesus. He holds the whole world in His hands and sees the things above, deep beneath, the things in between, and even what’s unseen.

Scripture encourages us to glean from what we observe around us:

• “Consider the lilies…” (Matt. 6:28);

• “Consider God’s wonders” (Job 37:14);

• “Go to the ant… consider her ways” (Pro. 6:6);

• “Then I saw and considered [the consequences of laziness];” (Pro. 24:30-34);

• “Consider how to stir up one another…” (Heb. 10:24); etc.

Through this project, my goal is to capture the parts of my day that weren’t scheduled in. To notice the candid, the unstaged, the intriguing, and the “basic.” They likely won’t be glamorous, but they are just as a part of my day as the perfectly planned parts.