Comments on: Release Your Perspective as the Only One

By: PaulaShort

PaulaShort — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:44:10 +0000

Lisa thank you bunches for sharing this poignant message with Sweet Tea & Friends this month.

By: Donna B Reidland

Donna B Reidland — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:55:38 +0000

We all tend to have a one-sided view of things, don’t we? It’s so important to seek God’s help to gain a wider perspective. But when it comes to colonoscopies, I would have been glad to know mine was wrong. 🙂

By: Corinne Rodrigues

Corinne Rodrigues — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 07:16:50 +0000

Talking about colons and perspective, my mind immediately jumped to a Natural Therapy programme I underwent several years ago, where they kept insisting on doing some kind of invasive therapy – a colon cleanse – to enable people to lose weight. I refused to undergo this, but found that people come there regularly for precisely this reason! So when you used the word ‘routine’ and ‘colon’ in the same sentence, my first response was to caution you not to do that.
It was as I read further and saw the comments I realized what you meant.
How true your words are: Many times my perspective is formed in the leftover fog of life’s anesthesia.

By: Lisa Blair

Lisa Blair — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:20:08 +0000

Oh, my goodness! We desperately need God’s perspective! And then, we need to gain from other’s perspectives too. I’m glad you had another good report, Lisa!

By: Michele Morin

Michele Morin — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:36:46 +0000

My heart sank when I thought your colonoscopy didn’t work!! What a relief to gain the true perspective!

And this post is packed with wisdom that should be obvious but, unfortunately, we waste a lot of energy defending our one-sided and limited view of the world.

By: Paula Short

Paula Short — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:52:12 +0000

Lisa, at first I got worried. Then as I continued reading I have to agree that we need to sometimes stop and think about what the other person’s perspective is.
visiting today from G&T

By: Anita Ojeda

Anita Ojeda — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:53:13 +0000

Oh, boy! I’m pretty fond of my perspective! ?. But there are so many times when God whispers in my soul—is this the only way to think of this situation?

By: Bev Rihtarchik

Bev Rihtarchik — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:07:20 +0000

Lisa,
My first reaction when I read your words was, “Oh no…Lisa went through all that awfulness for nothing?!!!” I’m sometimes all too quick to jump to my own conclusions without hearing the whole story. I am learning, even in my old age, that my opinion is not the only one; often I’m wrong; don’t assume; let go of all or nothing thinking…and the list goes on. Thanks for encouraging me along this continuous journey.
Blessings,
Bev xx

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:17:33 +0000

“Routine colonoscopy” is not a phrase I have heard or seen ever before in my life. American healthcare is weird. <— my British perspective 😀 … although I’m very glad they caught that cancer in time!

I love perspectives. Definitely the more the merrier. A single perspective is always lonely, and fogged like in your story, and emotionally fragile too.

Most exciting is when, once you have two or three perspectives, you can imagine a fourth or a fifth. It doesn’t have to be, “one of these must be the right one” — you can release that, and work together as a group to make a new perspective.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:59:35 +0000

At my last colonoscopy, I told the doctor the I could feel everything. She didn’t do anything. It’s like to she didn’t hear my perspective at all. Later the nurse told me they couldn’t give me more because my blood pressure was too low. So from their perspective, the risk was too high. But I sure wish they would have told me that when I was wide awake through it all! 🙂 Maybe the lesson is that we can listen to all perspectives–seek to understand before coming to any of own (wrong) theories!