dailydatewithgod

When we are reading or watching a fantasy story the creator counts on the audience’s suspension of disbelief when telling the story.  As human beings we are not usually willing to delay or hold things back especially if they rub up against our sense of what is right and true.  Doing so brings up the fear of being made a fool and experiencing possible shame because we fell for something we should have known not to believe.  Yet in the context of a story we oblige because we get to explore and take a ride to see what is possible and lies outside our boundaries of what we know. Plus when we do it collectively there is less chance of experiencing shame.  Our hearts encourage us to engage in a suspension of belief when it comes to interacting with others and ourselves.  So often we approach things from the mind that knows and can make decisions about ourselves and others automatically.  This is very helpful to get through life and inherently a good thing but it has limitations.  What might it look like if we listened to the heart’s call to pause and hold back or delay what we know about another person to discover them with new eyes?  How might something we believe we know about ourselves have a chance to be explored if we suspended our belief about whether or not we were capable of it?  With suspension comes rooms for curiosity and possibilities which are the realms of the heart.  God designed us with the capacity to grow and change.  We stop ourselves when we do not suspend our beliefs about things we know for sure and take a chance on seeing what we might not have seen before.  We get stuck in fear for the same reason we fear speaking in front of an audience, we do not want to chance looking like a fool and feeling shame. How many people who suspended their beliefs about what was possible with themselves or others were not first called crazy?   Pretty much all of them.  It is only now we see the wisdom in their ideas and inventions.