What a sight!

"So in the end, explanations always fall short, and we're left with a choice between sight and faith, between practicality and belief. Because beyond the world that we see with our eyes is another world that pulses beneath the skin of the visible - a world of prayer and spirit, of love and the future, of wonder and ultimate reality. And that world is even more real than ours since it's only because of the invisible that the visible is even here."
~Stephen James, Sailing Between the Stars

It's amazing how much we see - and don't see - with our eyes. I can see the crow cawing joyously outside my window as he bobs up and down on the tree branch. I see a small yet powerful body, graceful wings, glossy black feathers, a sparkling black eye. But what it is really? Nothing more than an assortment of vibrating molecules, which absorb and reflect different parts of the waves and rays and particles of light that strike them. If we were to see a crow without our brains filtering the reflecting light rays and meshing together  the moving molecules, I think it might look something a bit like this:

But because of the way that we are created to see, it comes across to us like this:

However, if you were created not as a human being but as a snake (which "sees" primarily by sensing creatures by the heat they give off), a bird would look more like this:

If you were a bat, you would sense a bird by the sound waves reflecting back from it by using sonar. But as humans, we cannot see the thermal image of another living creature. We can't detect the precise waves of sound bouncing off of a solid object. We can't even see uv rays or microwaves, which I've been told that some reptiles can. How much more might we be missing out there just because we are not equipped to see it? Even the things that our brain CAN perceive are not always relayed to our senses.

"The brain processes 400 Billion bits of information a second. BUT, we are ONLY aware of 2,000 of those." -Dr. Joseph Dispenza, D.C.

There is simply too much information for us to respond to all of it without going mad. So when it comes the the spiritual world... well, to quote one of my favorite Christmas movies, The Santa Clause, "Seeing isn't believing...believing is seeing. Kids don't have to see this place to know that it's here. They just...know." Just because we cannot see the world of spirit with our eyes doesn't mean that it's not just beyond the ends of our fingertips. Regardless of what our eyes tell us, a lot of crazy stuff exists in this world that we can't - or don't - perceive. This is why faith is such an important part of our relationship with God - because

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
~Hebrews 11:1

Think about that as you go about your day... especially the fact that Jesus is always with us, "even to the end of the age". Even though you can't see Him standing beside you, that doesn't make Him any less there. Our human perception is flawed, but God's perception is perfect. And at the end of our lives, when our transformation comes and we are made like Him... man, that'll be a sight to see! :)