Perception

Perception is not everything, but it certainly dominates our experience of every

person we
meet, and every event or situation or place we encounter. We cannot help it.
We interact with
our world based upon our perception of it. It seems obvious therefore that one
of the keys to
intimacy in our marriages is the ability to revise our perception of one another.
The same is true
in science. If we are to penetrate the mysteries of our world, then our
perception of it must be in
constant revision. The New Testament refers to such revision of our perception
as repentance–
the radical reorientation of our minds. The disciples of Jesus learned by bitter
experience that
human beings have a way of imposing their own ideas upon God. And they
learned that in doing
so, we not only create a god of our own imaginations, we also miss the real God
and thus the joy
of His presence and activity and blessing. - C. Baxter Kruger (Jesus And the
Undoing of Adam)