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“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change” Wayne Dyer.

It has always amazed me of how two people can see the exact same thing but see it two completely different ways. Our beliefs, the way we live and make decisions are all based on the way we see things, our perspective.

In August of 2021, Calvin and I were staying with our two oldest grandchildren, Adisen and Ty while Jessica and Kent got away for a few days. On one of the nights I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to just get up. I was sitting in the dark on the couch looking out at the night. The moon was full but had this eerie bleak look to it, like one of those creepy foggy scenes in a horror film. I got up and walked over to the door and looked out and noticed the moon was bright and beautiful. I sat back down and once again, the view through the window was so distorted and ominous.

For the past four months prior to this, what I had called “my life” had taken on a totally different expression of itself. I was walking around blindly, confused, not knowing which way to turn, nothing seemed real… a true dark night of the soul. As I sat looking out at the night, I thought of how parallel my life looked to this…very bleak. Through my tears in what felt like death, I begged God for relief from the reality of my existence.

God answered by reminding me of truth. The truth was the night wasn’t as ominous as it looked through the window. When I changed how I looked at it, it changed. I am not really sure why my vision of the night was so distorted through the window, but I began to realize that in my darkness my vision of my life was also distorted. Distorted by the lens I was looking through. I ended my time with God on that morning praying this prayer.

Dear God, father of all goodness and grace. Help me today to see my life through your lens. Help me to extend your mercy to all…especially myself.

My life was and is about so much more than a dark distorted frame of time. My heart has had a chance to be broken open and grow over the past couple of years allowing me to stand back and view from a different perspective.

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change”