I heard a song and in it were the words “looking through life through someone else’s eyes” and that is something we do often.
From birth we are “taught what is what” and often we don’t discover it for ourselves. It is important if we discover “life” ourselves and experience what happens so that the lesson remains deep in our subconscious and involves all our senses.
Parents, teachers, friends, relations, and others give us their views of life through their eyes, and even if they are well intended, their advice or what they tell us is only from their own view, it doesn’t mean that it is right or the truth, it doesn’t man that it will be good for our own life.
Because we respect, love and trust some people, we can allow their thoughts, advice and beliefs to guide us and become our own beliefs.
I have seen more than a few teenagers at church talk about growing up in a Christian home and going through the motions of being a good godly child/teenager etc, and then one day feeling empty, and wondering if he or she really did believe in God. Up to this point they were living other people’s views and beliefs, and this is why they suddenly doubted or wondered if they truly believed in God. Some stayed attached to family and church and some moved on to a different life.
Besides all the love, guidance and teaching that others give us we eventually come to this point where we wonder if what we were taught up to this point is really what we believe in.
I read that billy Graham’s son went through some doubt, took up gambling, drinking alcohol and did other things that were the total opposite to what Franklin had been taught by family and church. After a period of time he went back to family and church and became the devoted person that he is today.
Another example of this is the masses immersed into materialism and commercialism who one day become religious because they wanted something more to believe in instead of just money and “things” etc.
Life is about personal experiences, not just what we read, not just what we are told, and maybe not the Belief System that we were immersed into since childhood. We need to be open minded that what we have been told for years may not be the truth, and we can reach higher levels of wisdom and existence than those who guided and taught us before.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
30 January 2018.
30 January 2018.