We never saw that coming.
What if everything that we see now that we hadn’t seen before had always been there, but we needed to see things in a new way to recognise them? It’s something to see with a child as they learn new things – new for them – that had always been there but were not seen until they could see them.
What if that extended, though, to things like innovations and new developments. What if they were always there but needed someone to see them for what they were to bring them into our viewing? For example, take the mobile phone. It now has the capacity to receive and send visual, audio, textual and imagery data around the world in a matter of seconds. That development was not around in my Dad’s youth, but it’s with us now. What if it had always been possible – what if it was a reality that was always there, but just needed someone to see it and take the steps to realise it?
You might refer to the technological resources that were required for that to happen. Even then, though, pictures and words written centuries ago suggest that what we consider as innovative now was seen by others before us. It was there, it just needed to be realised and in some cases it would take an unorthodox route to get there.
It’s new to us, because we see things anew. It might have always been there, but it needed to be revealed to us and for that process to happen we had to be open to seeing things anew. Maybe that supposed dead end job wasn’t as pointless as it first appeared, but needed to see things anew. Perhaps that decision to make that move might seem daft, but if we didn’t make the move we wouldn’t experience that which has stretched us and developed us to the point where we’re in a better place for it. That required first of all a way of seeing things that we had never seen before. To see anew.
When we open ourselves to that and the possibilities in that, perhaps we will end up in a place of such wonder and amazement that will leave us with the truth of the matter …
We never saw that coming.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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