the power of perspective

So I've been thinking a lot lately about different people's perspective on life and how much of an influence it has on everyone. Have you ever ever had an eperience that completely rocked your socks off and took you out of your own little world and refocused everything and put it into perspective?

I think a lot of times we tend to focus way too much on so many little things. We really waste our time trying to satisfy the simplest, stupidest, meaningless things of our lives that we essentially start seeing things as if we are looking through magnifying glasses all day long. It is like one of those posters that have little tiny seperate pictures that make up one big picture. Too often we live in the little tiny picture, and our little tiny picture is only a small part of a bigger picture. Sometimes instead of zooming in on a picture so close it is better to zoom out so that you can actually see the whole picture as it really is.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if each and everyone of us could only see life as it really is? What is life really for? What are we here for and what is our perspective of life itself? How does our perspective affect our ability to see what is around us clearly?

I remember a lesson that I had once in high school and the teacher gave us these "drunk goggles" apparantly its supposed to replicate what you see when your drunk. The teacher correlated these goggles to a persons perspective. Everyone has a different perspective, and in some ways it does distort our image of reality. This is very true.

I said something in my talk at church today that relates a little to this. I said, "how special is to to know that God knows us personally? Not only does he know each and everyone of us personally, but he knows you and I without the stereotypes or pre-judgements that we know each other by. He knows us from a totally different perspective than we can comprehend." In today's world we are always overly concerned with what someone else is going to think about us, or what someone else is going to say about us. Or whether I can tell this person this in case they might tell someone else that.

We struggle daily to live our lives between what we want to do and what the world thinks we should be doing. Sometimes we fight too hard to make the world like us and in the process we lose ourselves and what we actually believe. We let our perspectives blind our perceptions.