Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement, the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

I want to talk about something today that I think a lot of us struggle with, the way we see things.

Let's be honest,

we all see things our way from our perspective and our lens. But what if we aren't seeing

things completely clearly? Would we want to change it if we were in fact seeing things wrong?

Let's get into it. So I want to pose that question again and you to think about it for a minute because

it's important to consider, I think. If you knew you were seeing things sort of in a skewed way,

would you want to know it and correct it? I think a lot of times we say we would, but in reality

we like to hold on to our points of view and

perspectives, and we don't like to even be open to a different point of view if it challenges

ours. But I think sometimes what we don't realize is often that is fear-driven. If we let go of our

view, we unravel a whole bunch of backstory and feelings we don't want to deal with. So we call

it perspective and we keep believing it's right no matter what. And then sometimes I don't think we even

realize we have a skewed lens, but it comes out in a way we're triggered, which by the way,

as a big red flag, we may be seeing things from a lens that isn't completely clear. I got an email not long ago from someone who was upset by something I had posted, and I know this person, not well, but through some mutual friends.

And more importantly, I know some of this person's backstory of some hurt they were caused by someone in ministry.

I knew and recognized immediately by what was said that it really had nothing

to do with me, the things that were said in this email. The assessment of the person wasn't correct,

but it was all based on feelings from the past that were displaced sort of onto me because

something I wrote hit a nerve. I got it. I wasn't offended, a little put off if I'm being

honest, but I simply responded to the email and said, listen, I know what happened in the past and I am so

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