the shape of your perspective

“Well there you go again, you say, you want your freedom” ~ Crystal Visions, Stevie Nicks

Have you ever heard the expression “try to gain some perspective on things”? Which is along the same lines as “take a step back” or “looking at things from a new angle”.

The expression is one used in the context of talking or thinking about a topic of interest. Whether a problem, a puzzle, an issue or a decision to make.

“Try to gain some perspective on things”. Have you ever taken a moment to consider that we have options regarding our the shapes and distances our perspectives can take?

Let’s visualize the concept of our “perspective”… Does your ‘perspective’ stand on a vertical plane or a horizontal one? • How close in, how far? • Is your perspective 3D, perhaps a crystal shape, a pyramid shape, or maybe a perfect sphere? • How does the dimension of ‘time’ factor into your imagining? • And what about movement?

Imagining the shape of my ‘perspective’ has lead me to consider my place upon or within my ‘perspective’, where others are situated and where God is. Considering the perspective-dimensions from where we stand and where God is/radiates/surrounds, may tend toward a more wholistic appoach to our considerations and decision-making.

I think this explains how God knows all, and sees all, because God is all: a complete understanding of every perspective and its whole, including the awe-inspiring cumulative wisdom of time-beyond-our-knowing. In this knowing, the most creative, loving, just perspectives are the ones which God-Universe offers us to, and shares with us through faith and wisdom, and more rationally through gifts of the sciences, the social sciences, literature, the arts, and all of human knowledge and understanding.

God invites us to search for the various shapes and forms, distances and dimensions, of ‘perspective’ in our lives… this is sure to inspire interesting conversation and insight. ~ Blessings, Martha Merry