Thinking About Perception
Nettie Bozanich
 
I’ve been thinking about perception lately.  What drives us and what shapes character is not so much what happens to us but how we perceive what happens to us.  Perception of any situation is in our hands; no one can take it from us.
 
I’ve been thinking, too, about how perception of our lives and situations can change based on whether we choose to use a narrow-angled lens or a wide-angled lens to view the world around us.  A narrow-angled lens causes us to perceive a world which focuses on only today and on the self.  A wide-angled lens helps us to perceive a world which is complex and involves more purposes and reasons that our own. 
 
And when we add God to this wide-angled view, we can perceive the world to be in control by the One who knows everything about yesterday, today & tomorrow.  God helps us to go beyond ourselves and believe that even though we may not always understand what is happening that He is working out His perfect plan in our everyday lives.
 
Perception is about choice.  We can choose how we interpret what happens in our lives.  When we choose the wide-angled lens of God, we can have confidence in Him that everything is working together for the good of the Father who loves us.

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