The Blessing of Eyes
Whether you arrived here through this Sunday spirit or through Week 2 of the Joseph journey – you are in the right place, and this is the right moment.
This week, we receive the blessing of eyes to see God’s glory. The Born to Recognise journey invites you to exercise that blessing – not by looking harder at what is already visible, but by reawakening the vision that lives further in. The inner eye that knows before the outer eye can name.
What follows is your invitation to do exactly that.
Your Nomination
You have been nominated for membership in the First International Secret Society of Impossible Things.
To be considered, you must design one piece of clothing that will be worn to your initiation ceremony. Should you be accepted, you will never have to work again – and nothing, from this point forward, will be impossible.
The Society’s tailor is waiting. He has access to every material, every technique, every colour that has ever existed or been imagined. Nothing is beyond his craft. Nothing is too strange, too expensive, or too difficult to make.
Your only task: tell him what to make.
How to Move Through This
As you move through each step, let your eyes be part of it. Draw it, sketch a schematic, cut something from a magazine, take a screenshot, scribble a colour – whatever makes your boat float. This is not about making art. It is about letting your physical eyes see what your inner eye has been holding. Give it a shape. Give it a surface. Let it exist somewhere outside of you.
You can move through one step a day, or set a couple of hours aside and follow it start to finish. There is no right or wrong way. There is only closer to your first instinct – and further from it. Trust the closer.
One rule only: don’t look ahead.
The Seven Steps
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Step 1. The Garment
What is the garment? A coat, a dress, a pair of trousers, a cape, something with no name yet – anything is possible. Prepare a model for the tailor.
Before you move on: once you had the question, did an image arrive immediately – or did you have to search for it? Did you surprise yourself, or did you reach for something familiar?
Step 2. The Fabric
The tailor writes back.
“Magnificent. However, the Society’s Fabric Committee convened overnight and determined that your chosen material carries what they are calling ‘prior aesthetic commitments.’ You are required to choose a different fabric. All other decisions stand. The tailor awaits your instruction.”
What fabric does it become?
Before you move on: did losing the first fabric feel like a loss – or a relief? Did a new image arrive, or did you have to negotiate with yourself?
Step 3. The Colour or Pattern
The tailor writes back.
“The fabric has been approved. Unfortunately, during the weaving process, our dye specialist accidentally foresaw your colour choice in a dream last Thursday and immediately resigned. We are legally obligated to ask you to choose a different colour and pattern – everything else stands.”
What colour or pattern does it become?
Before you move on: did the constraint open something or close something? What did you reach for first?
Step 4. The Three Buttons
The tailor writes back.
“The garment is extraordinary. The Society now requires the addition of exactly three buttons. This is non-negotiable – the Third Founding Member had a very specific feeling about buttons and it is written into the charter. You must decide: are they the same button, three times – or three different buttons? And where do you place them?”
Decide.
Before you move on: same or different – and did you know immediately, or did you sit with it?
Step 5. The First Symbol – Your Dream Holiday
The tailor writes back.
“Approved. However, the Society’s Symbolism Subcommittee – which meets only on days when it is raining somewhere in Ireland – has ruled that one button must carry a visual symbol. Specifically: a representation of your ideal holiday. It can be drawn, cut from a magazine, photographed, or arrived at by any other means you choose. The tailor will render it exactly as you give it.”
What is on the button?
Before you move on: what arrived first – a place, a feeling, a person, an activity, a colour? Did it surprise you?
Step 6. The Second Symbol – Your Prize
The tailor writes back.
“The button is perfect and has been noted in the Registry of Significant Symbols, Vol. 47. A second button now requires a visual representation of a prize you would wish to win. This may be a real prize – Nobel, Pulitzer, Olympic gold – or entirely invented. One former candidate requested a trophy engraved ‘For the Person Most Likely to Notice.’ Another sought the Golden Spoon of Inexplicable Cooking. The Society accepts all nominations. What do you wish to have won?”
What is your prize?
Before you move on: did you go somewhere serious or somewhere playful? Was that a choice, or did it just happen?
Step 7. The Third Symbol – Your Strength
The tailor writes back.
“The garment is nearly complete. One button remains. The Society requires nothing elaborate for this final symbol – only this: a visual representation of what you consider your strength. Not your achievement. Not your role. Your strength. The tailor will wait as long as necessary.”
What is on the last button?
Before you move on: did you know immediately – or did this one take the longest? And is what you put on the button something other people would also name, or something only you know about yourself?
The Garment Is Complete
The tailor has everything he needs.
Look at what you’ve made. Not the garment – the decisions. The things that arrived without being summoned. The things that surprised you. The things that took the longest.
That is what the Society was actually looking for.
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