It colors your views, shapes your decisions, and puts a unique twist on world. The actual contents don't change from when you receive it to when when put it down. The same nuggets of truth are always there - you just may not see them.
As you progress on our journey, the kaleidoscope turns. Whether gradually or in sudden jolts, it rearranges the bits inside into a plethora of pictures: snapshots of wonder and doubt, growth and pain, mountaintops and the lowest of valleys. The pieces you had forgotten, the ones you wrestled with, the ones that left you with no answers, get jostled into a new light or shaken out of the corner. This is when things click into place inside you. Other times, the parts that were once your focus shift out of sight, and you are left with open hands, grasping for something sure and finding only air.
Sometimes, a person or event will move past you and bump you as they move by, unexpectedly changing your view. Perhaps it was a blessing, an angel in disguise shedding light that pulls you out of despair. Perhaps it was intentional, a shove, not a bump, and you were left frantically shaking your kaleidoscope, trying to replace the parts you thought you needed and recover the clear picture you had. No matter how hard you try, the fragments are always tinted by the experience.
So when the kaleidoscope gets turned, when you are shaken, when what you thought was true changes shape, what will you do? Will you throw down the lens of your faith and walk away betrayed?
Or will you pause, think, reassess, and move forward with the same truths in a different light?
*Inspiration credit: yet another awesome youth leader with a good message.
Beautiful post love.
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