Don’t just see YOUR perspective. SEE the other PERSON’S as well.

This week has been long, and it’s only Tuesday! I feel like my emotional meter has skyrocketed past capacity. So many changes are happening all at once, and adapting feels akin to walking a tight rope. I have been realizing that on a whole we (human beings) don’t know how to communicate. We see only our point of view and have a hard time seeing the other’s person’s perspective because we are so sure we are right. Here’s a complication, what if  both sides are right? What then, do we keeping pushing or do we take the time to find common ground? Pushing does nothing, but knock the other person down, leaving them feeling like their hard work amounts to nothing. But common ground gives us both something to build on, it produces soil that we each can sow into.  When I read my Bible and look at things from God’s perspective I genuinely believe that is part of His plan for us. The goal of life is not to fight, fight, fight to prove we are the best. The Goal of life is to be aware of the people around us pouring into their lives and allowing them to pour into us, so we ALL can be the best versions of ourselves. Life is short and without even looking for it we will see the faults in others, we will misunderstand what is being said. We need to take the time to look past the faults, take the time to really hear the words…we need to stop looking at the surface and see the heart.

“The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7).

So what’s my plan of attack? Stop fighting, starting looking deeper.