Axioms…from my perspective

i’ve decided to dedicate thursdays to giving some of my personal life axioms…truth that, from my perspective, is self-evident. sometimes practical. sometimes philosophical. sometimes whimsical. but truth, no less.

“see the biggest picture possible”

it’s interesting as the weeks go by, and more and more of my axioms begin to surface, i find myself realizing that the most important axiom i believe in is whatever one i am currently writing about.  more true today than ever…

the difficulties of life have a way of “squeezing down” our perspective.  stuff comes our way nearly everyday.  the unexpected.  the unfair.  the unexplained.  the painful.  the heartbreaking.  sometimes you see it coming.  sometimes you don’t.  no matter…hurt still hurts.  and our nature is to “squeeze down”.

god wants us to see life in IMAX, but when our world comes crushing in (or simply tweaked), we have this unhealthy way of viewing life through a tiny, self-imposed tunnel.  we choose to see what we want to see.

we fail to see the big picture…we don’t go to the edges to get a better angle…to get a glimpse of what god sees…and to get a view of what god is really doing in the drama of our existence.  but we need to go there.

honestly, it’s hard.  it’s much easier to sit in our pain.  or carry on endless dialogues in our own minds.  or run from the truth and live in denial.  or go and find an arsenal of would-be friends who will say what we want to hear.  none of these…or an endless string of imposters…is the edge.  it’s something entirely different.

it is learning to develop the discipline of sorting out truth from fiction.  but it’s more.  it’s having the mind of christ.  nothing short of that will do.

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