We can live seeing only through our own mind's eye, or we can live seeing through God's eyes. It takes willingness, discipline and grace to turn from seeing and believing our own reasoning mind's view of our life's happenings to not seeing but believing God's view. While looking at, while experiencing, the exact same thing.
The trouble with God's view, to our own mind, is it seems the reverse of reality...paradoxical at best. But the proof of God's perfect view is in the seeming disasters that befall us in life, that swamp us, until our reasoning mind gives up in utter despair...surrenders in fact. And here comes God to save the day! Simply by allowing our mind to be changed, we are given a different way of experiencing the reasoning-mind disaster. There we find our own pearl beyond price.
Word of warning...this takes time and daily discipline. For the blessed few, it can happen in an instant...the burning bush effect. Never pooh-pooh the burning bush...we never know but what we will be so blessed and miss it for our lack of willingness to see.
More and more I am viewing life itself as akin to the way of the Cross. Everything the Man did, he did it for good...and according to my reasoning mind, where did it get him? It got him hanging from a cross is where. Yet over two thousand years later, I look through God's eyes and see that same fact celebrated annually...celebrated with songs and praise, with a full hallelujah chorus.
My extremely puny personal experience has to do with the over ten years when I got to take care of the IRS. My mind was changed about the unfair disaster that appeared to be, becoming today my deeply mystical spiritual experience.
I am beyond grateful to God for making that change.
Thank you.
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