The Daily: Monday June 8, 2026

"I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken."
— Psalm 16:8

Seeing God Everywhere

Walt Whitman wrote: I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. Why should I wish to see God better than this day? In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass.

That is one of the most extraordinary spiritual claims in all of literature. Not a vision in a temple. Not a supernatural encounter. God in every face. God in the mirror. God in this hour, this day, exactly as it is.

Eric Butterworth helps us understand how this is possible. God, he says, is not a being we can locate or see with physical eyes — because God is the whole of which we are all parts. Every person contains the essence and potential of the whole. To see God is not to find something out there. It is to learn to see from a different place inside.

Jesus saw this way. He saw the whole person within the partial person — not the sin, not the weakness, not the presenting condition, but the full human being made in the divine image. And that seeing was the key to his healing power.

This is the promise of the beatitude. Not that we will one day see God in a distant future. But that as we become more wholehearted, more undivided, more honest inside and out — our vision clears. And we begin to see what was always already there.

Reflection Question
When have you caught a glimpse of God in an ordinary face or moment? What made you able to see it in that moment?

Prayer 
God, train my eyes to see you — in the face across the table, in the stranger on the street, in my own reflection. Clear whatever is obscuring my vision and help me see what is already there. Amen.