PERSPECTIVE

Life hides many surprises, and every day it unravels. Sometimes it unravels right in front
of us and sometimes in another form. Just like how God acted upon in our lives. He approaches
us in so many forms of surprises. But sometimes no matter how He try to make Himself known
to us, we still cannot notice Him and that is because of our Perspective.
In today’s reading I had unveiled another surprise by life, a surprise that changes the way
I view life. A view to see more clearly the presence of God. All of the readings had instilled a lot
of lesson and realizations in me, but most of all it taught me the true power of Perspective. It tells
me that in this world full of chaos we can still see the presence of God, and seeing God depends
on our perspective on how we will view life. This is actually what I got reflected from the
reflection of Gretchen Crowder “Finding God in Cady Jar” because it reminds us that God never
leaves our side, it us who choose to change perspective and acted as if God is not right there.
Crowder wants us to see every little thing in life for these little things are the pieces to see the
whole image of God and how wonderful life is.
Furthermore, there are a lot of way to change our perspective in life aside one example is
our emotions. Our emotions are also a driving force towards the shifting of our lives and
perspective. Like for example if you are anger, you’ll see life and everything as an enemy, when
you are happy, everything seems to be bright and calm and when you are sad, you feel like the
world is gloomy, as if you’re at a rock bottom without any light to pull you up. But all of it can
be change if we shifted our perspective into another direction. If I were to name my emotions, I
will name anger Nyla because it means humble and meek, by which it tells us that when I am
angry, I must stay humble and meek in dealing with my emotions and the situation. Usually
whenever I am angry, I stay quite as a form of humbleness and meekness because I believe if I
will act rashly it might worsen the situation, that will end up becoming hard to solve and I don’t
want that. For the emotion Happy I will name it Maeve for it is an Irish name which mean cause
of great joy, because I want to instill in myself to always find a cause of happiness and to never
let my myself be plunge in sadness or negativity. For sadness I will name it Faith, to tell me that
whenever I am sad and at the urge of losing hope, I must always find Faith. A Faith in God that
the situation I am experiencing is just a way of Him of redirecting me into something great.
Commonly whenever I am sad, I always seek faith by praying, because it always gives me at
ease and somehow it lightens my burden that later on cast away my sadness. For Envy I’ll name
it Hani, and Arabic descent which means happy and content, to always remind me that whenever
I feel envy, I must stay contented of what I have because it is what’s best for me and through
this, I can find true happiness. Lastly, fear, I will name it Isabelle meaning God is my strength
and devoted to God in Hebrew. I chose this because in order to overcome my fear I must always
lean on to someone with strength that can always give me assurance and courage to conquer my
fears, and that is through God. This is also what I do when I am afraid, I hold on to God’s
strength to make me stronger and braver in facing what I fear.
Life do gives us a lot of hurdles that lets us slip away from God. Throughout my 19 years
of existence in this world I had also gone through a lot of hurdles but I can say that those hurdles
did not stumble me down but instead it had given me strength to continue. Same goes to my
relationship with God, even though I had been challenged many times by my faith but I always
find a way to cling into Him because I know that following Him will never bring me harm but
can lead me into the right path of life. I know that I still have a long journey ahead and I will still
be facing different barriers but I will always remember that I have someone that will never leave
me throughout my journey.
Today’s reading had taught me that I must always see life in many perspectives, because
every phase of life has a surprise prepared for us. A surprise that can better guide us in our
journey and a surprise that can make us see clearly God in our lives. This had also motivated me
to appreciate every little thing in life for God is so intricate in His works that even the smallest
detail He made has a purpose. It has indeed reminded me that when things get rough, I just have
to shift my perspective and that’s when things will change and become better. The readings
wants to send a message that God never leaves our side, it is us who looked on the other side
pretending He is not there. So, try shifting perspective and you’ll realize a lot of things.