Sometimes as we struggle for our day-to-day existence while suffering with depression or anxiety, we have tunnel vision and only see things from our perspective. Well, sometime we need to get a different perspective. We need to step back, come around from a different angle and see what the view is from there, just as sister blogger Aging Mommy wrote about.
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One might also consider a completely different persective of someone else who has a bigger view than we do and that someone is God. We may only be able to see just our path ahead of us, and it may be foggy or even dark. God, however, sees things from the 40,000 feet view. He can see what’s up ahead and he’s preparing us for it. Things that happen, they put us on the path to where he wants us to be. During your quiet times of reflection and journaling, ask him to show you HIS perspective.
Do you have any thoughts on looking at life from different perspectives?
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divine……eternal space inside and outside like football…god inside….god outside…..fear to freedom….
A child is walking in the garden holding one finger of mother, happy enjoying the breeze, inquires suddenly , why I like holding your hand ?. Mom answers as we transfer the data in the computer as this is data transfer of love between us . Child inquires again,this breeze is touching us , what is that?
Mom answers that is the data transfer of love between you and cosmic intelligence.
Child inquires again , what is the cosmic intelligence ?
Mom answers , breath is a union between you and cosmic intelligence , and nature is a smile of god…….
what a smile can express, many miles of words can not express….so to express gratitude
walk is a silent conversation with nature in a universal language of love and beauty…and now go and play with your childhood friend ………..,let me watch you both together…………..
love all…
Thank you so very much for mentioning my blog and post on perspectives here. It is as you say so very hard to step back from our own lives or any specific situation, but only when we do so sometimes can we derive true inspiration.
Yes, it is very difficult, but oh so necessary at times. Thanks for coming by!
Bernice, so glad to have you stop by my site! Yes, about perspective…I believe it’s literally vital to be able to look at life from different perspectives. There’s always something we miss or don’t know about the other person’s side of the story. On the same token, it’s one of the hardest things to do in the heat of impatience or an argument. *Sigh* Glad that God knows us and loves us so!
You have a new follower! I’m following you through Networked Blogs. Have a wondrous week ahead!
Jinnia
It’s great to visit your blog! Depending on the day and your mood especially. I’ll continue to read through.
Thanks for visiting Zen Mama
Bernice: Thank you so much for stopping by Grandma’s Briefs today. I was so happy to see a new face in the comments. I know what you mean about being a young grandma … although I wasn’t as young as you. Take pleasure in it; it only means you have more time to enjoy it! AND it means you see the whole grandparenting experience from a different perspective than most! (Like how I fit that in with your question of the day!?) :o)
Nice to meet you. I hope to see you again soon, at either my place or yours!
I can’t remember who told me this true story, I think I was about 16 when I first heard it, but I remember the story well and was thinking about it this morning in quiet time. It goes something like this:
There was a man who was once robbed of his purse. He wrote in his diary: “Let me be thankful. First, I was never robbed before. Second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life. Third, although they took my all, it was not much. Fourth, let me be thankful because it was I who was robbed, and not I who did the robbing.”
What a perspective!!!!!!
After thinking about that story, I was curious to see what the dictionary had to say about perspective – Webster’s dictionary defines perspective as: one’s “point of view”, the choice of a context for opinions, beliefs and experiences.
I LOVE how that’s worded. “the CHOICE of a context for opinions, beliefs, and experiences.”
Every day when we wake up we have a choice ~ we can choose how our attitude and perspective will be for that day! It sure takes a concentrated effort though, doesn’t it? But WE have the choice – I love that!
What if we chose to have a different perspective then our usual stock response? What if we purposed it in our hearts to deliberately see the joy over the pain? What would change? Who would be impacted?
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