Dotted
Look at the picture above
What do you see?
Looks quite obvious doesn't it
because
I bet you see a
Big Black Dot.
Well that is what the students all saw
when a professor had them do the same assignment
when he handed them a piece of white paper,
like the one above,
with a
Black Dot
in the middle.
Just like
Dot, Dot, Dots
that follow after your
perfect beginning to your story, your
Once Upon A time there lived a little boy/girl named ___________
and then the
. . .
that follow
representing
the chapters inyour life
filled with the
Characters
Settings &Plots
that are all a part of your story.~
the Chapter you just came out of
the Chapter you are living right now
the Chapter that you will be going into to..
Filled with
the good dots
the not so good dots
the dots you want to remember
the dots you don't want to remember.
But
no matter how you look at them
they still dotted and are dotting your life.
Now what?
So what do you do with the not so good dots
that you just can't stop thinking about
that you just can't stop worrying about
because that is all that you see~
because
they left a mark,
they left a message on your heart.
What is dotting your life right now?
Is a dot from the past
Is a dot in your present
Is a dot that hasn't happened yet?
Whatever the dot may be
it is there.
Well...
the students did not get an A on that assignment
because none of them saw what was really on the piece of paper~
the
white
that was so much bigger
than the black dot.
The
white
that makes the black dot so much smaller.
But aren't we like that
when all we see & focus on is
the dot
in the middle of our life.
I am not minimizing the pain of the dots in our life
because they are real,
impacting our lives in such sorrowful ways,
but
I also know that the more
I fix my eyes on
the dot,
whether it is from the past, or in the present or one that I am worrying about in the future,
it consumes me and just gets
bigger and
bigger and
bigger
until there is no white space left to see~
No joy
No peace
No hope.
But
when I look away from
the dot
and fix my eyes on
the
white
in my life
that is all around me
that is all around you~
His Blessings
His Faithfulness
His Love
His Peace
His Joy~
that He tells me to fix my eyes on
whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy...
and I
think about such things. Philippians 4
Fixing my eyes
Fixing your eyes
on the
White
so that
the power of the
Big Black Dot
becomes
smaller
so much
smaller
no longer consuming me
no longer consuming you
because
He becomes
brighter
and
Whiter
so that
White
is
all we see.
And all that it takes
is for me
&
for you
to shift our eyes
and
Put Me in His Story
Whatever _______________ (PUT your name)
has learned or received or heard from me,
or seen in me—
put it into practice.
And the God of peace will be with _____________. Philippians 4
And
then the
Big Black Dot
will no longer
be so big because
He
is
so much
Bigger
way
Bigger
than
any
of the
. . .
in your life.
If you like, watch this video of the Black Dot Assignment