perspective and perception

hey there everyone...

as most of you know, i haven't had the best time in the world in the last ten months or so. funny thing is, i tend to take things in stride - sure, i get bumped around like every other guy - but i try to keep moving nonetheless.

lately i've had a few rather unfortunate pulls back to things that i've tried to leave well behind me, and while those details aren't really the point of my message - some of what i have learned from them has. so i pass on this tidbit of wisdom that seems to me to be the way we all know we should think, but at the same time a way of thinking we tend to skip over in the frenzy of daily life and crises big and small.

when you have a situation with other people and other things, always realize that your perception of an event is always focused through your perspective. as i have tried to do a lot of things for the right reasons in my life, i've often seen them taken in a quite different, and sometimes horribly different light. i have no ill will towards any of those people, but in a conversation with one of my best friends today i realized that i really am mostly sorry for the people on the other side of a situation... often thinking too much "if he/she/they only knew what i really meant."

well, sometimes that can't happen and you can't make it happen. all i can do is ask you all to do is to try and open your mind to other views if you have people in your life you've shut out without making things right.

"How can you think of saying, 'Friend, let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,' when you can't see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log from your own eye; then perhaps you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friends eye."

good advice from [Luke 6:42] if you want to read more on the source of that.

anyway, enough rambling from me. i hope you're all well (as always) and you'll be glad to see that you're only getting one email from this post now :)

.jason