What Do You See?

Last night I was looking at one of my art books

and there were two images like the ones below, the subject was

"Center of Interest"

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What do you see in the images above and below?

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In art the 'center of interest' is so important in a painting.

Our eye goes there.

Now, think of all the space around that center of interest.

It is much larger than the dot, yet what we focus on is the

dot

This morning I had an epiphany

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In our lives, we can have one person, one critical or mean thing said or done,

and it becomes our focus.

There could be 400 nice people in our lives,

but one critical word

can

become

the

center

of

interest

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What if, instead, we train our minds to see the larger area?

To not spend our time and energy

focusing on the

one

small

dot

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I shared this with my husband this morning,

I drew a black dot on a sheet of paper and asked him what he saw.

You know what he said.

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We've experienced a person who has been 

...  no other word comes to mind but mean-spirited ... and it has so affected our thoughts

and peace of mind and happiness.

Yet there is so much more, a larger area to focus on.

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My goal today is to do what this scripture verse says,

"...Whatever is true ... noble ... right ... pure ... lovely ... admirable ...

excellent or praiseworthy ... think about such things"

Philippians 4:8

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Care to join me?

~ Violet ~

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P.S. The positives of  having experienced a mean person:
1.   Could make for an interesting character in my daughters future novel.
2. Taylor Swift would never have written her hit song,
(Why do you have to be so) "Mean"
had she not experienced a certain person....