January 19, 2010
The Perfect Storm
Few of us can resist looking out the window when there is a storm. We’ll look out the front window and report what we see, and then invariably someone else will go to the back door and say, “Wow. Come here, you gotta see it on this side”. It’s only 20 feet from one side of the house to the other and yet the weather watchers are talking like the storm is somehow worse on one side of the house than the other side. No wonder Noah didn’t open the windows on the ark for forty days. (Genesis 8:6)
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Gail;
-----Some say perception is everything. If they are talking about how the individual meets his surroundings, they are right. If they are talking about how to manipulate others, they are again right. For the only way a person has to understand his life’s progression into the future is by what he can perceive from his past (which hopefully includes Bible study.) Each person, in a manner of speaking, looks out his own window at the storms and the sunshine. But if they are talking about the importance of perception, they are wrong. The real import is in the storms and the sunshine themselves. The only relevance of perception is in its alignment with them.
-----I have seen rainstorms sprinkle long and evenly across the whole valley. I have also seen heavy, little clouds sweep over me while dumping a circular, gully-washing torrent in a path just tens of yards wide. They go almost as sudden as they come, and they can wash out your neighbor’s flowers to the one side, and barely water the neighbor’s lawn on other. It might pay to go to the back door and see what’s up.
-----It never hurts to be the recipient of another person’s perspective. I think we are usually reluctant to do so because of the damage it may do to our own perception, the most culpable excuse, or because we only hate being found gullible. In either case, we loose. If you go and find it is one of those wandering little cloud-bursts, you benefit in having a corrected perspective. But if you find it the same looking out his door as it was out your window, you benefit by having your first perception verified. And either way you find it, you also benefit by discovering something of the moment about the one who called you there. Therefore, gullibility has nothing to do with considering the call when you observe the evidence. And the damage done to your perception happens only from unconsidered evidence.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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