They say practice makes perfect. Well, that may not always be true, but, it does make you better at whatever it is you are practicing. I tell my kids all the time “get better” and then I say”how do we get better? ” and I say “practice”. So in my home we practice lots of things- reading, swimming, running, writing (I probably need to practice a lot on writing). Whatever we have the ability to do, we want to do the best we can.

I see other people practice stuff all the time – from athletes to lawyers and to doctors. Yet, the one thing I hardly ever see people practicing is on their relationships.  Look around you, listen to conversation, look at the statistics on divorce rates or just look at how many people no longer talk because of something silly. I guess you could say we practice relationships; we practice how to walk away from them.

We can all remember as a kid having someone do something annoying or distracting or hurtful to us. We would go and tell a parent or teacher and they would be say “just ignore them, they’ll stop”.  As a child hearing   “ignore them” over and over again has taught us to do just that. If someone does something we don’t like we just ignore them or just walk away.

The other day my kids got in to a “he pushed me, she pushed me” thing. So I got to the bottom of it and decided they needed to work on their relationship. They need to practice not ignoring each other but communicating with each other and resolving their conflict.   Not just apologizing but spending time together and practicing their relationship so they could get better.

So what started out as my daughter wanting to force her help on my son and then him not wanting it and pushing her out the way, ended up as them doing the following

Adriana   “Xavier do you need some help with that?”

Xavier   “ No thank you, but thanks for asking.”

Adriana “Ok, if you do, just let me know I’ll be glad to help.”

Xavier   “Thanks, I will.”

Let’s us get better at relationship let us practice relationships it’s never to late to start.

Share your thoughts do you practice relationships……………………….

We’ve all heard that phrase, “Perception is Reality.”  It has been used since the beginning of time to explain the things people can’t explain.  Greek mythology is all based on what people perceived to be true.  We use to believe the earth was flat, until one brave man decide to explore it.  Throughout our history people have made up things to explain stuff they can’t explain.  The sad thing is we do this exact same thing with people.

It’s one thing to say the earth is flat and I could even see someone being scared to go find out.  A person might not come back if they find out that it is.  When we do the whole “Perception Is Reality” thing with people, we are to scared or to lazy to just ask the person for the truth or even worse, we just don’t want to believe someone.  Simply saying “Well you know, perception is reality…” Is this even true?

Lets look at one man, actually “The Man” Jesus.  If perception is reality, He is not the Son of God, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  See the Pharisees had perceived Jesus to be one way and that’s what the stuck with. Although Jesus came to give life, they perceived He came to threaten their way of life.  People to this day still don’t believe the truth of who Jesus is or why He came to this earth.  These same people don’t seek the truth, they settle for assuming.

The thing about the perceiving things that aren’t true is eventually we see the earth is not flat, we understand that its actually round.  If we take the time to go and explore the truth of who a person is and not what we perceive as truth, we will discover new things about them as well.

Seek to the truth!  Stop assuming that all lawyers are bad, all doctor just do it for the money, every pro athlete is a conceited womanizer…  Perception is not Reality, it’s just what you perceive, until the truth comes out.

What do you think?  Is Perception Reality?

Today post is a video  by Sho Baraka ft J.R. “We Can Be More” from his upcoming Album “Lions & Liars” set to release March 30th. Its a great video with a great message I hope you enjoy!