My Mom likes to shares a lesson about a time when she and my little sister were walking through a park and she pointed out some pretty white flowers. My about age four at this time responded no they are pretty pink flowers. Mom said no, they are white. Again my sister argued that they were pink. Most likely out of fear that my sister had become so overwhelmed with pink as many little girls do she turned and realized what the problem was. Red lensed sunglasses. Asking her to take her sunglasses off she said what color are they now. Oh, they’re white! But, I prefer them in pink and put her sunglasses back on. This was her reality she liked things in pink and preferred to see them that way.
Similarly my first car was an old Volvo. It was a great first car, blindingly slow and heavy. Fortunately gas back then cost less than seventy cents a gallon. One of the problems with this car was that it had a tricky seat heater, sometimes it would come on and the switch wouldn’t light up. In Texas you rarely if ever have a need for a seat heater so this was one of those things that you forget about till you are driving down the road and the person in the passenger seat starts complaining how hot it is and how the A/C doesn’t seem to be working. But the driver felt totally comfortable. Turning the seat heater back off would typically lead to a convergence of reality. Both driver and passenger felt the same temperature.
In both cases there is a baseline reality and a secondary reality influenced by a different set of circumstances. Sunglasses and seat heaters and numerous other things can augment our reality. Once we have changed our reality it can be very difficult to come back without a wakeup call. Think Jonah + Whale = reality shift.
Where are some areas that your reality doesn’t fit with that around you?
What do you use as a measuring stick for a healthy reality?
Ask the Lord to show you if you have any areas of reality that he wants to change.
The What I see: Reality by Zach Mapes, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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