Weekly Musing - Stephanie

Have you thought about why people have so many different

perspectives? Sometimes, it feels like we don’t even live on the same

planet! How is it that people can see things so very differently?

In trying to understand the mechanism for this, let’s take a pair of

eye glasses, for example. When we put them on, we are seeing through

the lenses. These lenses often have specific prescriptions that affect the

way the eye sees distance, light, color, clarity and more. The lenses

become the perspective through which we see the world. When we

remove the glasses and look at the glasses themselves, we see the thing

that is allowing/causing the perspective we have been experiencing.

Once we see the thing that is causing the perspective (institutions,

systems, cultures, family dynamics—mechanisms designed to produce

certain outcomes), we begin to understand the reason for our current

perspective.

Once we see, we can’t unsee. This is the shift that creates greater

awareness and opens our minds to see differently and, with growth and

development and expanding nervous system capacity, we can rise and not

collapse into depending on the lenses to lead us to judgement.

Prayer thought, “God, give us eyes to see through your lenses of

Reality and not through the lenses of the world.”