Weekly Devotion: Hidden Sight
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I’ve always been fascinated by what I can best call “hidden sight,” the ability to see something that others can’t see. It’s when two things, two ways of seeing things, two realities inhabit the same space. Some can see this, while others go through life not seeing this turn of events. Maybe the best example of this “hidden sight” is in the Harry Potter books. To get to the wizarding school of Hogwarts, you had to do that very British thing of taking a train. In the first book of the series, Harry learns that he has to take the train at a certain platform 9 ¾. Harry gets to King’s Cross Train Station in London and looks for the platform but can’t find it. There is a platform 9 and a platform 10, but no platform 9 ¾. But he notices a certain pillar that seems to straddle platforms 9 and 10 and he makes a run for it. Instead of running into a wall of bricks, he walks through the pillar and into Platform 9 ¾. On the other side of the pillar, there didn’t seem to be anything, which caused his very mean uncle to laugh at him. But when he went through that pillar, he was able to see a world that no one else could even though it was right in front of everybody.
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-Dennis Sanders, pastor