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Letting God Look at You: Recovering the Gaze of the Father, by Rob Sexton – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Letting God Look at You: Recovering the Gaze of the Father, by Rob Sexton

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Do You Believe?

December 5, 2025

Honest Media Would Demand OIG Investigate Afghan ‘Vetting’ Instead Of Hegseth’s Texts, by Breccan F. Thies

December 5, 2025

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By Rob Sexton, Catholic Exchange, Dec. 5, 2025

Rob Sexton is a Catholic writer, husband, and father of six. He’s the voice behind Costly Things, a blog exploring faith, fatherhood, and spiritual formation through the lens of everyday life. A lifelong student of both theology and strength training, he writes about discipleship in the trenches. A stationary engineer by trade and contemplative by nature, he draws from late hours logged in the boiler room and the Adoration Chapel and is as comfortable with a pipe wrench in his hand as with a rosary.

There is a moment in every true conversion, not the dramatic kind, but the hidden, lifelong kind, when we stop trying to look at God and finally allow Him to look at us.

That shift is everything. It is the difference between effort and surrender, between striving and sonship. It is also the beginning of real intimacy. We spend much of our lives thinking that if we could only see God more clearly, we would finally have peace. Yet peace does not come from seeing Him. It comes from allowing ourselves to be seen.

The Wound Beneath the Armor

We live in a world that teaches us to hide. From the time we are young, shame trains us to build armor, to protect the parts of ourselves we suspect are unlovable. We learn to manage our image, to curate what others see, and eventually we even bring that armor into prayer. …

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Letting God Look at You: Recovering the Gaze of the Father, by Rob Sexton

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Do You Believe?

Honest Media Would Demand OIG Investigate Afghan ‘Vetting’ Instead Of Hegseth’s Texts, by Breccan F. Thies

By Rob Sexton, Catholic Exchange, Dec. 5, 2025

There is a moment in every true conversion, not the dramatic kind, but the hidden, lifelong kind, when we stop trying to look at God and finally allow Him to look at us.

The Wound Beneath the Armor

We live in a world that teaches us to hide. From the time we are young, shame trains us to build armor, to protect the parts of ourselves we suspect are unlovable. We learn to manage our image, to curate what others see, and eventually we even bring that armor into prayer. …

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