dailydatewithgod

One of the most powerful prayers I can say is, “God help me to see this differently.” One of the most powerful questions I can ask is, “God, how do you see this  person, situation, idea, or experience?”  Both of them give me the breathing room between my own perceptions about a situation and God’s perception. I have been made painfully aware more than once of how my perception of reality is skewed.  Reality is different for everyone because we define our reality by our perceptions.  Life is not what happens to us, it is about what we make it mean.  Our minds are meaning making machines.  This is a brilliant function of our mind to enable us to assess situations, make decisions and connect with each other.  But like all things it can also hinder us from being open to the presence and the experience of love because it lays outside the parameters of what we think is possible.  Turning to God to seek God’s perception brings us back to the source of all love and widens the lens of our perception of love and thus reality.