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Begin a new season with a new practice, an Observation Walk 

(from our friends at Peer Ministry Leadership)




JUDGEMENTS

ASSUMPTIONS

CRITICISMS

NEGATIVE IMPRESSIONS

OPINIONS

Are you ready to see the world in a new way?

It’s time to take a walk!

Walk, observe people, observe creation, observe all with God’s constant flow of love, grace, peace and

hope shining through you. Shining through? Yes!We are like God’s reflectors. God loves us, so now we

get to love others.

Walk!
As you see people, as you see various elements of creation…
• Imagine seeing as God sees.
• Silently pray words of gratefulness.
• Silently pray words of blessings, your wishing well words.
• Replace your own view, your own assumptions and judgments with God’s constant gaze of love,
grace, peace and hope flowing through you.

Repeat a word as you see any other person
DELIGHT
BLESSED
CHILD OF GOD
LOVED
IMAGE OF GOD

Imagine how this practice of seeing people as God sees everyone, reflecting God’s love, could change
our whole perspective on how we view people. It could remove our judgmental assumptions about
people. We might start seeing the good in all. It would look past the sinner parts (even those we want
to judge as overly obvious sinners), and still find the saint, the goodness in all. It is overly human to sort
a person into our like and dislike categories. The challenge of this gazing prayer is to let go of the
categories we often divide people into and let our eyes see as God sees.

Psalm 18:18-19
They confronted me in the day of my calamity;
    but the Lord was my support.
He brought me out into a broad place;
    he delivered me, because he delighted in me.



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