Picasso Perspective

"It is all a matter of perspective.  How you see the world around you is what you can communicate.  And, you get to choose what it is inside of this perspective that you wish to concentrate on ...", and so began another day of lecture in 1966 by Pablo Picasso.  As one of six of his students, I quietly exhaled and knew I was about to be utterly lost again for another four hours ...  it was all so philosophical!

No, I was never to become the artist I desired to be, my father's brutality on such an endeavor was without bounds.  Luckily, I had a brain and learned how to use it.  And when I became a Christian, my new father (God) felt my life needed to be complicated by "knowing" all manner of things I should never have been able to ...

I had a chance to catch up with one of my old students last fall.  She had been in my classes for 7 years, I was her sitter for a while before that, so I knew her extremely well.  When she had problems during those troubled Junior High years - I advised her on what to do.  When the rush of the hormonal teenage years where upon her - I advised her as to her best course of actions.  When it became time for life - I advised her on her best path.  And when it was time to marry - I advised to not do so.

Mind you, she had twin problems: she had a deceitful spirit and I knew early on that anything she said to me was suspicious at best as far as truthfulness would be desired.  And she would never accept that I had any idea as to what was best for her.  So, yeah, although I gave her truth - as God would reveal it to me - she could not accept what was said.  After all, I am just an old German computer nerd and she is, well, above all mankind in her mind.  So, yeah, lots of problems along the way.

The marriage did not last long and she took off and married again - to a guy almost exactly like that first non-Christian disaster!  Well, that one did not do so well either and so along came number three, again a carbon copy of that first two.  None of them where Christian, she insists on being unequally yoked - as Paul put it.  So though she desires happiness - she never finds it because she is looking at the wrong perspectives and places in life!  And now, she is shattered.  She realizes that she will never find that elusive happiness and real love.  I offered no advice as to her course of action this last time - she never has listened, she always chooses wrongly, and once upon a time, long ago, she actually had met that someone - but he was not "hot" or special, just a solid Christian young man.  He still is single, still is thinking about maybe looking again but all of the females he can find - would not even consider him still.

Such is the curse of a generation bent upon self destruction - because they are smarter than God, their elders and anyone else whom would dare speak against their deeply held desires.  And I have not given up on him, though I may have to drop kick him to even ask a girl out, when/if the time is right ...

So why would I even continue to try?  No one listens, everyone forgets what you tell them, even the last time I tried - the person came back years later with "God just does not talk" to them and they were so lost as what to do ... and yet I had so plainly told them over and over again what they needed to do!  But, that path is of no interest to them!  I could laugh were it not so tragic.  Yet, there once was one whom did listen once ...

Random woman in line for popcorn at a movie struck up a conversation with me and out of nowhere comes this question about life ...  And God told me what I needed to share, what I need to tell her to validate that she was hearing was not of me.  And she listened, and she did as I had told her.  I only saw her again was a few years later.  Two decades later she hunted me down and told me all which had happened, what she was saved from and how happy she was to have stumbled upon me!

Really?  I can only tell someone something, God tells me, and she is only one I have known of to have listened.  Well, then there is another whom did exactly as told, but had long forgotten what was told  - sometimes I giggle to think of how God had set them up to do exactly as He wanted.  Though they will be in Heaven before they ever figure it out.  :)

Where you set your eyes, is where your path will begin.  It is all a matter of perspective.  That is why we are responsible before God and do so poorly for we only see what is of no value in our eyes - but priceless in God's.

You can change your path, you can learn to  value what God values, and your rewards will not be of this Earth ...  so expect unhappiness and frustration when you choose the wrong perspective.