Discerning Mindset: Finding God in all Things

The title was the caption of the first picture I took in Loyola during orientation. It was the one that first caught my eye, maybe because it is the last one, but perhaps because that is precisely what I sought to do here: to find God in all things.
There are other that has caught my eye along my years here. For instance, "appreciation of things both great and small" more specifically because of the small. And "linking faith with justice" because they seem so unlikely to link but yet such an obvious pairing.
However, these are not the ones that I would like to write about today. I just went outside of the library and read each of them one more time. And a new tile caught my attention this time.

"Contemplative vision formed by hope"

This phrase made me want to look words up. Contemplative means "expressing or involving prolonged thought." So it is all about forming a vision. I think this has become a new interest in my life, because I need to figure out not only the vision that God has for my life, but my own vision.
I need to form my vision, and I like that it is formed by hope of all things. This vision not only implies seeing yourself in ten years. It means the same vision which you use to see the rest of the world, and that is the fact that interests me. We need to change our vision, we need to put some thought in it, and we need to see the world like God sees us, with hope. Hope that people are good, hope that it will all be okay. The phrase will be so different if it ended with love, instead of hope.
I think this is what a Jesuit education has taught me. It has changed my vision, it has shaped me to see the world through hopeful eyes, and to put some thought into it.