{"id":893,"date":"2020-01-16T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/?p=893"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:25:47","slug":"being-seen-by-mary-lou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2020\/01\/16\/being-seen-by-mary-lou\/","title":{"rendered":"Being &#8220;seen&#8221; by Mary Lou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-894\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/IMG_0842-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/IMG_0842-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/IMG_0842-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/IMG_0842-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/IMG_0842-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/IMG_0842-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-895\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/75339726_2750466285004571_7240793318882279424_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/75339726_2750466285004571_7240793318882279424_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/75339726_2750466285004571_7240793318882279424_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/75339726_2750466285004571_7240793318882279424_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As January is Mary Lou\u2019s birthday month, I (Gary) wanted to highlight something about Mary Lou that those of you who know her would surely agree with \u2013 Mary Lou makes an effort to \u201csee\u201d you when she is with you. The photos included remind us of this fact.<\/p>\n<p>As we finished up our year of spiritual mentoring of the pastoral leadership and leaders of the Pacto in Colombia, we did an exercise (modeled by Mary Lou and Sara in the photo) of looking into the eyes of another for 60 seconds. We wanted to \u201csee\u201d each other\u2014not just look at each other or glance at each other or glimpse each other. We also shared during our mentoring times that \u201chow\u201d we see can determine \u201cwhat\u201d we see. Not one person, adult or youth or child, that we were with for this activity had ever done this before \u2013 looked into the eyes of another to \u201csee\u201d them and hold their focus for 60 seconds! We discovered that a lot is communicated through the eyes in 60 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The young man that Mary Lou is \u201cseeing\u201d, Manuel Gonz\u00e1lez, graduated as the top student from the #1 public high school in Medell\u00edn in 2019. Mary Lou and I have been \u201cseeing\u201d Manuel since he was a very little boy. We are definitely going to continue to make sure that we \u201csee\u201d him as he moves through college and beyond. And that is what can happen when you truly \u201csee\u201d someone.<\/p>\n<p>Being seen by Mary Lou is such a blessing. 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