Perspective

Having lived for more than a half century, you might think that I would have some sense of perspective about life and the condition of the human race. Maybe, I do, but it keeps coming back to me about how narrow my perspective is on way too many occasions.

As a member of the human race, I am ashamed to admit a sense of superiority over the creation of all that we see and everything we don't see. The partisanship of man over the universe may appear to be subtle, yet when viewed with our inability to find peace with each other and our Creator, I have to admit we as a people are an ornery selfish bunch of dust particles. Yes, we have a soul that is the very energy of God's breath in us. But we are too prone to focus on the trials of just "getting along in life" rather that "what are we here for" and, what does the One who directs the program want from us?

I have wrongly looked to God and felt that He is not fair. At the same time that I want my freewill to be mine alone, I also want God to intervene in all my wants. I want God to take charge in my "altruistic" prayers, yet not placing myself in the right place in His greater plan of all things. We (that includes you too) are way too selfish to see ourselves as just a speck, on a rock, in a system attached to a stray arm of a minor galaxy, hung among other galaxies in a vastness that should humble us before God and even the rest of creation that we can't see.
We entertain ourselves and look for more ways to have power over circumstances and others. We show abundant mercy when earthquakes devastate a country, yet we often fail to take the time to alter our lifestyle to communicate the vastness of our need to reach the soul of all mankind.

Have you take the time to say what is good for all people?
Have you come to a real understanding of what 'good' is really is?
Can you be hones an seek a source of connection to the real facts of life?
Have you tended to dissolve into your own thoughts without regard of the thoughts of the One who put all of "this" together?
What would you do about it?

I am humbled to the truth that I need a perspective that is greater than my narrow self-worth can afford.