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Monday, January 31, 2011

Perspective

Thank you Dictionary.com :)


per·spec·tive

  

–noun
1.
a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships ona flat surface. Compare aerial perspectivelinear perspective.
2.
a picture employing this technique, esp. one in which it isprominent: an architect's perspective of a house.
3.
a visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance; vista: aperspective on the main axis of an estate.
4.
the state of existing in space before the eye: The elevationslook all right, but the building's composition is a failure inperspective.
5.
the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., inhaving a meaningful interrelationship: You have to live herea few years to see local conditions in perspective.
6.
the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningfulrelationship: Your data is admirably detailed but it lacksperspective.
7.
a mental view or prospect: the dismal perspective ofterminally ill patients. 






Life is all about perspective. (To piggy back off my last post about choices and decisions...)


We get to pick how we view the world. 
We can choose or decide to view it as unfair, or whatever.
We can also choose or decide to view it as there is a reason for everything. 


Life comes at us, and sometimes comes at us hard.


We are sinful people in tempting, sinful, fallen world. 
God never said it was going to be easy go lucky. 


Sure we can focus on all the crap and junk. But then we are signing ourselves up for bitterness, anger, frustration, hurt, etc.
We can also focus on the good parts of life. 
Yes focusing ourselves on the good, it's something that really needs to be practiced. 


Life is bitter sweet.
We cannot enjoy the good, without the bad. 


We can't lean on HIM, 
Trust HIM, 
Grow in HIM,
Live for HIM 
If we are always being debbie downer.


Our trials are not to bring us down, but to bring us up in HIM.
We have the right to question HIM.
We have the right to ask HIM what is going on in our life. Why things are happing, what is the purpose for things. We have that right. 
We may not always get the answer that we want. But we need to take the answers we do get and take them as is. 


Back to perspective.... Ha
Well it is our perspective to look at life in a way that brings joy, or we can take it with an F off attitude. 
We all have our moments. But really life is good. Life is a chance to be something.
There is always something in your life that could be worse. 
There will always be things that we can't explain. But God's got it. 
He's got us. 
We need to view this life as a time of joy, and a time to learn what it means to live like HIM. 
Perspective on life, love, Christ, etc. It's a world of difference when there is a bad attitude or perspective, compared to a good, reasonable, accepting one. 














(Ok I feel like I rambled and made no sense in this post... sorry if thats how you viewed/read it.)















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