Q. What do you see in the diagram below?

Answers:

  • From a mathematician: It is a circle, a shape with all points equidistant from its center.
  • From a writer: It is the letter ‘O’, the 15th letter of the English alphabet.
  • From a chemist: Oxygen.
  • From an over-zealous biologist: It is the circle of life.
  • From a Tagalog-English web translator: An informal way to say yes.
  • From a Malaysian waiter: O means ‘without milk’, i.e. kopi-O means coffee with no milk.
  • From a woman in love: It is my future wedding ring (you have to tilt  it to see the amourous inscriptions we will get engraved)
  • From a 3-year-old: It is the moon.
  • From a blogger who wishes to get a point across: A simple illustration that shows us that we see things not as they are but as WE are, according to the ‘lenses’ that we wear.

We react to charity either with thanksgiving or with humiliation. We consent repeated failure as either a step closer to success or as the seal of our futility. We view love as either something to crave or something to offer.

Faith: a blind hope or the substance of things hoped for? The Gospel: a consenting remedy for man’s feeble efforts to reach God or an expression of His relentless love for us?

Wisdom and revelation: stumbled upon or deliberate divine pursuit?

We DECIDE how we see things that we face. We do so either with wisdom or with imprudence and offense. What lenses do you have on? I hope O means more to you than nothing. 8)

>> Proverbs 8:1,9- “Listen as wisdom calls out! Hear as understanding raises her voice! [Saying] My words are plain to anyone with understanding, clear to those who want to learn.”

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