Perspective

Weeds or Wishes?

Every definition of the word "perspective" means "to look" in some way.  In the visual arts, this might mean creating an illusion, so that what is seen is somehow different than what is.  In our interactions with other people, it means realizing that you are looking at something based on your own situation and background, whereas someone else has a different group of people they are looking out for and different experiences to draw from. As parents, it is absolutely our responsibility to advocate for what we feel is best for our kid.  No doubt.  However, it is also important to teach them how to consider other points of view and to consider other points of view ourselves.  Truth is not always cut and dry.  It is clouded by the eyes of those who see it.  It is viewed through the lens of experiences and personality.

What is your viewpoint?

  

   In my world….

  …a marching show looks completely different from the top of a stadium vs. closer to the field.

  …men and women, guys and girls have different ways of communicating and interacting.

…parents have children with different needs at different stages of life.

…some people gain energy by being around other people;  others need time to themselves to recharge.

Seeing with perspective doesn’t always change the way we ultimately believe a situation should play out, and there are times that we will have to fight hard for what we think is right. But, compassion goes a long way.  Having feelings validated allows people to connect and communicate.  It takes away the “fight or flight” in the situation.  It listens.  

 

I Corinthians 13:8-13

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.