When God Speaks

We all have them. Perspectives, that is; and most of the time we are convinced our perspective is the right one. It can be very hard to change those even when evidence pointing to another perspective is given to us. May be pride, may be stubbornness, may be embarrassment or a host of other reasons, but the fact remains they can be nearly impossible to change.

Why is this? A perspective is one side of things or as some say, ‘One side of the story’. For whatever reasons our minds all work differently depending mainly on how we view things, people, and the situations that confront us. How I see someone is usually different than how another may see that person if only for one small difference and as we all should know ‘there are always two sides to a story’ which accounts for the many different perspectives. For the most part both sides may have some truth to them. The problem is closed minds never see the full picture. If we are not willing to believe and confess that we only have half of the story then we might continue to hold on to only half of the story, the story that we have judged to be true. And so, we remain with a closed mind, sometimes eluding truth and this kind of thinking is bondage, not freedom. We are trapped in a story having only half the facts.

Freedom comes with allowing ourselves the right to be wrong and when truth surfaces we see it, accept it and let go of our right to be right embracing the truth. Truthfully, no one has the right to be right only the right to accept the truth however it may come and this can only happen when we can admit we might be wrong. That is where freedom lies.

So, how does one arrive at the correct perspective? Well, first we do not take someone else’s version of things as our own. We search and examine every side of the equation following facts, not hear say until truth emerges. Then we take that as true perspective. It’s ok to have a perspective different than another’s if that view doesn’t cause harm to anyone including yourself. We must remember that we have all walked in different shoes which can cause us to form untrue perspectives or maybe they were true at one point but when circumstances change so can people, and when this happens so should our perspective change.

A word of wisdom- ‘tread lightly, seek the whole story, change if necessary, and always, always remember there are two sides if not more to every story’.