dailydatewithgod

It makes complete sense that we believe everything we think. It makes sense that we believe what we see in front of us is all of what is actually there.  It would be exhausting and highly energy consuming to have to question everything we think and everything we see.  Our window to the world is the one residing in our own house.  What we lose sight of is the concept that everyone else is also viewing life through the windows in their house.  If they lived down the street would we harass them for not seeing what is happening outside in our front yard?  If none of the windows in their house give them an angle from which to see it, how could they?  We spend a lot of time being baffled by other people’s perspective without acknowledging the fact that they are working with what they have.  Before we can make someone else wrong for only seeing what they can see through their windows, we might want to ask ourselves, when was the last time we did not limit our perspective through our own windows by stepping outside our house?  Yes, it takes additional energy and effort to look at life through more than the windows in our own house or step outside of our house and see the larger picture.  It is what our hearts are motivating us to do when the windows we have become too narrow of a lens for life.  When the windows we have become clouded and hard to see through because we have things going on inside our house, it will influence what we see when we look out the window. Our minds are certain we can see all we need from our own windows whether they are cloudy or clear because it is what is familiar.  When we step outside into the unfamiliar we feel uncomfortable.  Only when we find ourselves unable to sustain cooperative and accepting relationships with others and the world by looking at them through our own windows do we venture outward.  When our minds are willing to acquiesce to the limitations of our own windows do we become willing to start by cleaning them up and determining if we need to step outside our house to take in the fuller picture.  It takes courage to notice and do our part to clean up the windows through which we see life. It takes greater courage to humbly acknowledge that we are missing out on the fuller picture of life by only looking at it through the windows in our own house.