My friend
sent out this quote this morning,
“Don’t judge
someone just because they sin differently than you”
That’s an
eye opener.
Then there
was this warning I read recently in a book by Elsie H. R. Rempel,
“Because we see life most clearly from our own
perspective, we can be tempted to consider our faith stage the norm, and use it
to judge others.”
Judging, perspectives, being tempted, sinning, seeing most clearly...differently
...differently than you.
Really, it is hard to see anything at
all in a different way because we are seeing everything through our own eyes;
everything is weighed from our own experiences, our own perspectives, it is all
weighed by what is going on in our own head. From our view, it seems that what
we see is the norm whether it is in regards to our faith or any other occurrence
in life. And really what is going on in
our head sometimes seems so simple, so straight forward. Why doesn’t everyone see that? Well the truth
is everyone does see that...from their own stage of the norm! We are all going around looking out at the
world from our own, simple, straight forward viewpoint.
It is hard work to turn and see the view
from someone else; the possibilities of what could be a different view.
I want to see differently, yes I do
think of glasses as half full rather than half empty, yes I do look to the
positive rather than the negative but I want to see differently.
I am also thinking that to see differently
we have to talk about it...otherwise how will we know?
