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on the topic(s) of... seeing/understanding/perspective. by (me!) sandra, tvgp

as a believer; I am confident the pattern holds true:  

the pattern I speak of,   -in joyce Meyer's words, goes like this:

".. we live life forward but we understand it backwards.."

so, when you reach 20 years old, you can look back at when you were 10 years old, or 5 years old, and evaluate, see, understand,  to a different degree, why you did the things you did, enjoyed what you did  -how you made decisions, behaved,  at that age, etc.

and if all goes well, you have matured some, and the toys and books that delighted you at 5 or 10 years old are quite different from the toys and books that delight you in your 20's.   and the way you handle hurt feelings, disappointment, compliments, praise, or lack thereof;   -all of this is different at 20..

and then when you reach 30 years old..  you can look back at what you liked and didn't, and how you handled life situations at 20, and understand to a better degree, -why and how you made decisions,   behaved and thought as you did 10 years prior.

and at 40 you can look back at 30, 20, 10, 5..

and at 50, you can look back at 40, 30, 20, 10, 5..

    -but you cant see it, when youre in it.    you cant see 10 years old when you are 10 years old; you can ONLY SEE IT, from 20...


" ..we live life forward but we understand it backwards.."

and what I am confident about as a believer, is that..   

after we die, and our spirits live on..      the pattern holds true.

now, and only after we die,  can we look back on our lives, and have it make more sense

  ~really SEE it..    put it in perspective.

maybe, there is a lot we cant see, exactly because we are in it..   

the same way you cant see 10 from 10, you can only see 10 from 20.

and this pattern somehow brings me enormous peace in the now..    at 50.

In patterned after Jesus name!   ~amen.

posted by SHE @ 7:59 AM