{"id":6558,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-new-way-of-seeing\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:26","slug":"a-new-way-of-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/a-new-way-of-seeing\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Way of Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are too often stuck in seeing the world in only one way and forget that we can be led to different viewings.<\/p>\n<p>A wealthy oil baron once commissioned Picasso to paint a portrait of his wife.  When the work was completed, the baron was shocked to see the image that had been created.  &#8220;Why that looks nothing like my wife!  You should have painted her the way she really is!&#8221;  Picasso took a deep breath and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure what that would be.&#8221;  Without hesitation, the oil baron pulled out his wallet and removed a photograph of his wife saying, &#8220;There, you see, this is a picture of how she really is!&#8221;  Picasso, bending over, looked at it and replied, &#8220;She is rather small and flat, isn&#8217;t she?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The point is clear: The man was so wrapped up in HIS view of his wife he could not understand anyone else&#8217;s view of her.<\/p>\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n<p>Brett Blair,  www.eSermons.com , May, 2001.  Adapted from: Bradford Keeney,  Everyday Soul , New York: Riverhead Books, 1996, p. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are too often stuck in seeing the world in only one way and forget that we can be led to different viewings. A wealthy oil baron once commissioned Picasso to paint a portrait of his wife. When the work was completed, the baron was shocked to see the image that had been created. &#8220;Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2018,621,2019,2017],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}