What we look forward is what we will see. What we see determines our perspective. And our perspective becomes our reality.
Our blog is full of book perspectives right now! But I love what I’ve been reading. I heard Lysa TerKeurst speak on her new book Forgiving What I Cannot Forget two years ago at the Thrive conference and have been dying to read it. I finally got it when I saw it in the Hobby Lobby check out line. Impulse buy… yes please. I started reading it and this section spoke to me and I wanted to share it. It uses an analogy we’ve heard so many times on finding hope.
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The possibility of hope is what I want to look for so that hope is what I will see. A when I start to notice it, that noticing has a multiplying effect.
Have you ever decided you liked a certain kind of car, and though you haven’t noticed it very much before, the next time you’re out driving you look for it? And when you look for it, that same car seems to be everywhere. You see two in your neighborhood, another at the stoplight beside you, and then several more when you pull into a parking lot of where you’re going. How can it be that you never noticed it, and then suddenly this car seems to be everywhere? It’s not that those cars just appear on that day. Chances are they’ve been zipping around you for our while… but if you are looking for them, you probably aren’t noticing them.
That’s the multiplying effect of making the choice to look for some thing, you’ll start to see it more and more. In the case of hope, the more you see evidence of it, the more assured you’ll be that it’s there. When your sure it’s there, a new perspective forms. And even better, the new perspective becomes a new reality.
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You can substitute Hope with love or kindness, or any word. The more you look, the more you see, the more you emulate and do.
What we look forward is what we will see. What we see determines our perspective. And our perspective becomes our reality.
