My Perception Can Be Distorted

My Perception Can Be Distorted is a prayer for truth and clarity. I hope this prayer-poem inspires you today.

Today’s post is the twenty-third one in the #write28days challenge, in which I’m participating during the month of February 2021. Today’s prompt is “Perception,” and here is my prayer/poem.

My Perception Can Be Distorted

My perception of you, Lord

can be distorted

when I see things

only from a human

point of view.

My limited

stunted

broken view

looks down

not up.

Ever earthbound

ever pointed

toward negativity.

Often doubting

your goodness

and sovereignty.

Give me your heavenly

perspective

to lift my thoughts

lighten my heart

and infuse me

with your perfect peace.

My perception of myself

can be distorted

by the simplest choices:

one extra brownie means I’m fat

one misspoken word means I’m foolish

one misstep means I’m a failure.

Yet you call me

fearfully

and wonderfully

made,

shaped by your own hands

and given the breath of life

with your own mouth.

Help me love myself

the way you love me:

boundless and lavish

a living temple

for your glory.

My perception of others

can be distorted

by my presuppositions

prejudices

and past hurts.

I see them bent and refracted

as in carnival mirrors:

monstrously tall and condemning

or miniature and crushable.

Help me see

your image

reflected in each person

so they are no longer

too tall or small

but on the same plane

as me, more alike

than different.

May I learn to love and forgive them

continually

the way you love and forgive me.

My perception of life

can be distorted

by my old sinful nature

like peering through a cloudy glass

seeing only dimly for now.

Yet one day you will make it all clear.

No more distortion

no more misperception

but all things new

and set right in the light

and perfect truth

of your very presence.

Want help seeing your blind spots? Read my popular devotion on this topic HERE.

Read all my posts in the Write 28 Days challenge HERE.

My Perception Can Be Distorted

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