Seeing is believing

Darn. For years I've heard that saying "seeing is believing" as "show it to me". My mother used to say it when she thought I was lieing. Or if I promised I'd do something she didn't think I could do.

It was right up there with "I'm from Missouri, you gotta show me!"

Tonight, an angel of compassion visited me and I heard "seeing is believing" in a whole new light. The light of love. When we see something it comes into reality. I don't know if we have the choice to see whatever we want, when ever we want it, but I'm checking that out too. I think we do.

I have held the belief that what I "see" in the future is a real view of the future. But, I'm beginning to understand that what I "see" is what I'm creating. It then becomes a matter of shifting one's perspective to see differently if that is needed. At the same time, shifting one's behavior stops the thing in it's tracks. Then all you have to do is behave differently and see differently and change occurs in the new direction. It's simple goal setting really. Everyone was always so surprised when goal setting worked. There was even a management approach named after it. Like it was big news.

Sometimes shifting my perspective or my behavior feels like moving one of those great big telescopes just one degree differently. Slow, but sure.