The Invisible Woman

A very interesting video!!!!
What is there in this video that helps you see life in a different perspective?

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It started to happen gradually. I would walk into a room and say something, and no one would notice. I would say, “Turn the TV down please. And nothing would happen. So, I would get louder, “Turn the TV down please!!” Finally I would have to go over and turn the TV down by myself.  And then I started to notice it else ware. My husband and I had been in a party for three hours and I was ready to go. I looked over and he was talking to a friend from work and I walked over and he kept right on talking. He didn´t even turn toward me. That’s when I started to put it together.  He can´t see me! I´m invisible!! I´m invisible!!

Then I started to notice it more and more. I would walk my son to school, and his teacher would say, “Jake, who´s that with you¿ And my son would say,”nobody.” Grant it he´s just five, but nobody¿

One night a group of us gathered and we were celebrating the return of a friend from England. Janice had just this fabulous trip, and she was going on and on about the hotel she stayed in, and I was sitting there just looking at the other women at the table. I put my make up on in the car on my way there. I had on an old dress because it was the only clean and I had my unwashed hair put up in a banana clip and I was feeling pretty darned pathetic .

And then Janice turned to me and she said, “I brought you this!”   It was a book on the great cathedrals in Europe. I didn´t understand. And then I read her inscription. She wrote, “with admiration for the greatness of what you are building when no one sees”

You can´t name the names of the people who built the great cathedrals! Over and over again looking at these mammoth works, you scam down to find the names and it says builders unknown, unknown, unknown.   They completed things not knowing that anyone would notice. There is  a story about one of the builders who was carving a tiny bird inside a beam that would be covered over by a roof, and someone came up to him and said, “Why are you spending so much time on something no one will ever see. And it´s reported that the builder replied, “Because God sees!” They trusted that God saw everything. They gave their whole lives for a work, a mammoth work they would never see finished. They showed day after day. Some of these cathedrals took over a hundred years to build. That was more than one working man’s working life time. Day after day and they made personal sacrifices for no credit.

Showing up at a job they would never see finished, for building their name would never be on. One writer even goes as far to say, “No great cathedral s will ever be built again, because so few people are willing to sacrifice to that degree.

I close the book, and it was as if I heard God saying, “I see you. You are not invisible to me!”

“No sacrifice is too small for me to notice! I see every cupcake baked, every sequence sewed on and I smile over everyone.” “I see every tear of disappointment, when things don´t go the way you want them to go, but remember, you are building a great cathedral. It will not be finished in your lifetime, but sadly you will never get to live there, but if you build it well, I will.”

At times my invisibility is felt like an affliction to me, but it is not a disease that is erasing my life. It is the cure for the disease of self centeredness It is the antidote to my own pride.

It´s ok that they don´t see me!  It´s ok that they don´t know!

I don´t want my son to tell he´s bringing home from college, “you´re not going to believe what my mom does, she gets up at 4 in the morning and bakes pies and hand makes  the turkey and presses all the linen!”

Even if I do all those things, I don´t want him to say that!

I want him to come home, and secondly, I want him to say to his friend, “you´re going to love it there!!”

 It´s ok they don´t see, we don´t work for them, we work for Him! We sacrifice for Him! They will never see, not if we do it right, not if we do it well!

Let´s pray that our work will stand as a monument to an even greater God!!

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