Inspired by . . . perspective
Inspired by . . . perspective
You’ve heard the expression “can’t see the forest through the trees”? It’s about perspective. Looking at something so closely . . .
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. . . that you miss the bigger picture.
Just the opposite can be true as well.
I think about perspective a lot.
When taking pictures, a different perspective can tell an entirely different story.
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But perspective is about a lot more than just seeing something from a different angle. It’s about understanding, too. Our perspective on something can be affected by what we know {or don’t know}, by our emotions, by our past experiences, etc.
Sometimes, we can look at a person or a situation, make a judgment – and be completely wrong. However, there are also times when two {or more} different perspectives can both be right.
Perspective is funny that way.
It’s not about our opinion, necessarily, many times it’s about how we view things – filtering them through our experiences.
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The book-made-movie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, has an interesting perspective on perspective. While I don’t agree with the author’s theology, the overall point of the book has merit.
Another book that has merit, with whose Author’s theology I do agree, says this:
But many who are first will be last, and the last first. Mark 10:31
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you,
do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, Matt 5:44
Where do wars and fights come from among you?
Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain.
You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss,
that you may spend it on your pleasures. James 4:1-3
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, James 1:2
A bit of a different perspective, wouldn’t you say?
Right?
Wrong?
or just different?
Whatever your answer, this perspective has eternal implications.
Blessings,
Other perspectives:
On being wrong
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