Perspective

For those who were at service on Sunday, a few bullet points to jog your memory (actually these are nearly all my notes, with an added surprise at the end):

•    Everything I see has all the meaning I give to it.
•    Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Weinstein are visiting with each other
•    “How’s Marvin?” Mrs. Weinstein asks?
o    "His wife is a leech." says Mrs. Goldberg.
o    "She Just sits around all day,
o    Has a maid to do cooking and cleaning,
o   he's going broke buying her expensive gifts
o    Sleeps late every morning
o    Brings her breakfast in bed."
•    “That’s terrible… a blessing she isn’t!” they agree
•    “Enough about Marvin, already, how’s your dear, sweet, Abigail?”
o    "Abby's a lucky girl. says Mrs Goldberg.
o    "She married a man who treats her like a princess,
o    Buys her anything she wants
o    Hires people to take care of the house
o    She doesn’t have to dirty a finger.
o    Every morning she brings him breakfast in bed."
•    Both women concurred, “Isn’t that wonderful?”
•    Everything you see has all the meaning you give to it

•    Let’s have a lithe fun with perception
•    Do you see an old woman or a young woman (or both)?

•    Do you see a frog or a horse (or both)?

•    Our perception is suspect
•    We see with our minds, not with our eyes
•    Sight = thinking

•    Grandpa Smith lives in Wisconsin
o    He invites his grandchildren to spend the summer with him
o    Every morning they would slip into his bedroom and watch him sleep
o    One morning they decided to put Limburger cheese on his mustache
o    He woke up in a few minutes, “Something smells bad.”
o    Put on robe, walked around bedroom, “It's bedroom smells bad”
o    Out the door, down the hallway, “It's the hallway smells bad”
o    Down the stairs and through the house, “It's the living room that smells bad... it's the dining room that smells bad... it's the kitchen that smells bad”
o    Outside, he says “The whole world smells!”
•    Isn’t that the way it is?  We think IT is not in us; It is out there in the world

The "it" that I think is out there causing my experience is actually me!

•    Sight = thinking
•    (Mark 9:47) “And if your eye offends you, remove it..."
o    If your perception offends your sensibilities, change your thinking.
•    Remove the old way of thinking and begin thinking with
•    The Mind that created us


•    Poem from James Allen's book. "As I Thinketh"
Mind is the Master power that molds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:--
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.

•    As long as we have the ability to choose how we experience events, why not choose to see through the eyes of Love... to see as God see?"






Here's a song you might enjoy (this was not part of the service): I Choose Love