Doses of Faith

 The other day during my morning prayer and devotion time, my thoughts wondered as they do sometimes to thoughts of why.  Why do people act as they do?  Why do they believe false conspiracy theories?  Many times it is who is around them.  But.  But, in today’s world it is not only the people living in their circle of friends but what they see on social media.  At the same time, I wonder why so many Christians are seeing things differently.  How can everyone see the same event but leave with different perceptions?  Why can’t they all see the facts?  This led me to searching the scriptures. First: How does the heart influence the way we perceive things? Come on!   It is February, so let us start with love.   But when the Pharisees  heard that  Jesus  had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.  And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him:  ...

 A few weeks ago during my morning devotion and meditation, my thoughts wonder as they some time do.  This time my thoughts wondered to why do people perceive things so differently.  Not only in the political world of today, but our perception of things can be so very different.  How do we determine what is true?   One incident that came to mind was the time we took our three year old nephew with us to our daughter's college graduation.  Corey spent every weekend with us because of his mother's job.  If we had a vacation, Corey went with us.  So, yes, we took him with us to our oldest daughter's graduation.  There was no problem at graduation.  Then, after graduation, we had made reservations at a nice restaurant in Charlotte.  This is where we ran into some people who had a different perception of where a child belongs. We arrived at the restaurant and were lead to our table.  As we were being seated, people at a nearby t...