Did you know that our eyes see more than our brains allow us to perceive? Our eyes are a tool, like the lens on a camera, and our brain is like the film. Except our brains have preconceived judgments, meaning, based on our past experiences we determine (at a sub-conscience level) what we put on our film, or what we perceive as reality. When Columbus and his ships approached America, the natives were unable to see his ships on the horizon because they had never seen, imagined or fathomed anything that looked like them. Even when the ships had approached the coast, it's said that the natives saw the ripples of the ship breaking the water, but still they could not see the ships. It wasn't until the chief was able to see and then describe what he saw to the rest of the tribe that they were able to see too.
So have aliens been walking around earth for years and we haven't been able to see them!? I doubt it. It makes you wonder though, doesn't it? What would we be seeing if we could wipe away the gunk of our preconceived judgments and the limitations of our imagination?
Perhaps social divisions and sins? Perhaps broken relationships, and people hurting? Perhaps God moving in our world in ordinary and mysterious ways? Who knows!
ReplyDeleteYou have some tuff questions to answer my friend. Interesting, I like it.
ReplyDeleteWe are very limited in our understanding of the world. I think that we gloss over things all the time that we simply don't want to deal with right now. It's a sad reality.
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