point of view

Broken Perceptions: Or Does Everything Hurt When You Poke It?

by Beca Lewis November 9, 2010

We can tell we have a broken finger by the pain we feel, and we can tell a broken perception in the same way, by the pain we feel. It is not necessarily a physical pain, although that can be a symptom, it is also emotional pain. We all have both of these kinds of pains at least some of the time.

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The Grocery Store Of Life

by Beca Lewis September 27, 2010

Standing in the grocery store aisle staring at the shelf, I couldn’t find what I wanted. I tried another aisle, then another – still nothing. Finally, I did what I should have done in the first place; I shifted my point of view. It was easy really, I simply said to myself, “What I am looking for is here.”

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False Evidence Appearing Real

by Beca Lewis August 9, 2010

A little green tomato fell off one of my plants and I put in on my window ledge to ripen. Days later, I noticed it wasn’t there. I didn’t move it, Del didn’t move it, where was it? I took my rings off and put them on the sink. When I went to look for [...]

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What The Mind Knows

by Beca Lewis June 2, 2010

Sitting on the back porch, I kept glancing over to my right where I could see a brownish “haze” under the weeping spruce tree. It kept distracting me because I couldn’t figure out what it was. Thinking that the rain or the early morning light was doing something funny to my vision, I looked, and [...]

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Spring Cleaning Thinking

by Beca Lewis March 16, 2010

Light does that. It reveals.

What happens next is up to us. Either we can let the dirt remain, or we can clean it up.

Here’s where the many choices, or free will, comes into play. It is the choices of what we want to perceive or think about what is revealed, and what we choose to do about it.

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Our Bodies And The Grace Of Movement

by Beca Lewis March 4, 2010

Perhaps we forget that since everything that is present is the presence of God, or Mind, or Spirit then what appears as our body and all its parts is not separate from God. Remembering this we don’t negate our bodies and turn away from them thinking that someday we will vacate them and become spiritual. Instead, we recognize that what appears as a body has its substance in Spirit the same as everything else that we see and experience.

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There Is Always A Way

by Beca Lewis August 27, 2009

Every morning I have a drink that begins with a cup of hot water. One morning our microwave broke so I thought, “Well I guess I won’t be drinking that this morning.” It took a few minutes before I realized that a microwave is not the only way to heat hot water, just the one [...]

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