Seeing Miracles

"Days pass, and the years vanish, and we walk sightless among miracles."

This is the first line of a passage from the Jewish Sabbath Prayer Book. It strikes me because lately I find myself noticing how quickly times seems to pass. 

This has been simultaneously the fastest and slowest year of my life. I've heard people say that as you get older, time flies. One theory is that we lack an ability to see the "newness" of our surroundings. We become numb. 

Time doesn't change. Our world doesn't change. We change.

"We walk sightless among miracles."

The rest of this passage continues as prayer, asking God to open us to these miracles.

"Fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightening, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever we gaze, that the bush burns unconsumed. And we, clay touched by God, will reach out for holiness and exclaim in wonder, 'How filled with awe is this place...'" ~passage from the Jewish Sabbath Prayer Book

Lord, help see. Give me the presence to be present.