episode 03. SENSORY VIEWS pt1
- thelawdsway
- Feb 1
- 6 min read
who do we follow? thelawdsway
Sight | Sound | Smell
I decided to split this post into two parts and in this first part, we’re going to look at the sight, sound, and smell senses. These will be split into three different topics being: stay in sight of your mission, comforting the uncomfortable and uprooted trees.
SIGHT: stay in sight of your mission
Our first sense is sight. Sight helps us to judge depth, interpret new information and identify colour.
Stay in sight of your mission.
Life is an amazing, extravagant, unpredictable, boundary changing, fulfilling, blessed process that we get to not only experience but live through. With that, it can be easy to get distracted by the life events that we may face but we shouldn’t allow them to derail us from the path that we have been destined to walk on, to achieve our purpose and fulfil our life mission.
You cannot be distracted by your right now that you forget your tomorrow. You cannot let obstacles and challenges that have weighed heavy in your heart and over your head defeat you and let you settle for the lesser alternative of your mission. You cannot let the black and grey experiences that you have gone through prohibit you from enjoying your evergreen pastures.
It’s about time that you start to stay in sight of YOUR mission.
Don’t worry about what other people has got going on and don’t blur the vision of the path that you have made for your life to be overrode by someone else’s vision.
If we all take the same path, the view never changes.
Focus on the narrative that you want for your life; the plans that you have made for your life. Be open to criticism and advice but don’t let it control what you want to do. It’s your mission. The only constant that will be throughout the mission is yourself. You must show up and show out for yourself each day during your mission.
So, are you going to do it for YOU or for the plans SOMEONE ELSE wants of you?
Stay in sight of your mission.
SOUND: comforting the uncomfortable
The second sense is sound. Sound detects vibrations in the environments around us. Our inner ear helps us to maintain balance and regulate pressure from what we hear from within us.
Comforting the uncomfortable is not always easy. It’s character building. It gives us a new sense of bravery. It helps us overcome the internal and external battles we may face, and I do believe that it is something we should do more.
I say this based on the benefits it can bring to our lives. Comforting the uncomfortable is an alternative way of telling yourself that you need to get out of your comfort zone. Having stayed in one environment for so long, admittedly you would have accepted the way in which the environment had shaped your daily living and the boundaries in which it helped you to create with people and things.
So, the big question one would ask would be: why try something new when the old is still working? Well, the answer is I don’t know because at the end of the day we will never know what the future may bring, what one outcome would be in comparison to another, how one act could change our lives until we put ourselves into the new situation that is out of our comfort zone.
Why try something new when the old is still working?
Well, why would you want to be contempt with the good things that you are experiencing when, if you took that leap of faith and stepped outside of your comfort zone, you could see the great things that have been waiting for you? A big part of comforting the uncomfortable is having the faith, certainty, and courage to act and step inside the uncomfortability where everything is new, untouched, unexperienced. It may be scary at first and that is okay! We may not even be fully certain and courageous to do so because we lack the faith and that is also okay! Comforting the uncomfortable is a process and no one said it would be a quick process to complete. It can take time but don’t be put off by the period of uncomfortableness that you may have to endure; embrace it and maximise all the opportunities within this new environment to the full.
Find who you could be, understand the new boundaries that you can enforce and take control.
The definition of what this uncomfortable environment could be for you does not need to follow the literal meaning of what being uncomfortable means. You may have not fully explored what this new environment has to offer, so take power in deciding what this new environment should be for you. Rather than seeing it as uncomfortable, see it as positively life changing. We often connect uncomfortability with change because we dislike the idea of feeling uncertain. We imply uncertainty to mean doubt, stress, and worry. But why don’t we imply uncertainty to mean hopeful, something new, something better, confidence so that when we do go through a process of change, we ensure we immediately get a sense of comfort, knowing that things will work out. Knowing that something greater is coming and we did not take ourselves out of our comfort zone just to fail. Our goals are being finalised, the actions we are required to take to achieve our goals are being conducted, the outcome in which we seek from our goals will be completed.
Comforting the uncomfortable requires every part of ourselves to be composed in a way to balance out the worries of the unknown with the hope that better things are to come. It is also having the ability to maintain this balance and regulate the value that we hold within our doubts and within our hope that comes from within.
SMELL: uprooted trees
The third sense is smell. Smell gets a sense of ‘particles’ that travel through the air, and by this we can identify smells of dangerous and corrupted chemicals that may be near us.
Uprooting trees is the act of pulling up a tree by its root and removing it from that environment. The uproot of the tree is the same act we should take of removing ourselves from an environment that is not helping us to grow and develop to greater heights. In doing so, we will be placing ourselves in a better environment that aids to our physical and spiritual nourishment, transformation, victory, and liberation.
The environment that you are in and the people in your environment greatly influences the options that you can obtain in life. People say that if you grew up in the hood, you have been set up to forever stay in the hood as your way of life. If you grew up in an environment that is full of poverty, people would laugh at you at the idea that you believe you could make a way out. If you grew up rich with a trust fund, you are perceived as being an individual who should never have to complain when things get tough. If you grew up around drug and alcohol abuse, everybody’s watching you, waiting until you become the next one in line of the long list of the family’s historical drug and alcohol abusers.
Until you move yourself away from an environment that is prohibiting your progression, that same environment will be what would be pulling you down and the people in the environment would be cheering on your downfall because you’ve now become one of them and realised that there truly is no way out.
Now this is not always the case, but it is something that we see and hear of often, especially in environments that are filled with closed-minded people and their ideologies. At the end of the day, everybody is entitled to their own opinion and the way in which they seek to live their own life but never let their opinions and ideologies dictate your own life. It can be dreadful leaving a place that is all you have ever known, an environment full of people that has literally watched you grow up but if that same environment had got to a stage where it had stopped your growth and limited your access to what had been helping you continue to grow, then take that as a sign that it is time to move up and move on to somewhere new.
BIBLICAL REFERENCE
Luke 1:2 CSB For my eyes have seen your salvation
Matthew 13:9 CSB Let anyone who has ears listen
Ecclesiastes 3:2 CSB A time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot
It is important for us to be interconnected with our senses as they affect our everyday lives. For me, I believe that such interconnection should be aligned to our ability to discern to know how we are to navigate life in this world. Who should lead the navigation? God. In this world it is paramount that we stay close to God and ensure we live a life through Him. With that said, we need to keep our focus and our eyes on the Lord, to pay attention to His word and commandments and remain rooted in His ways, knowing when to uproot from an environment that no longer serves us.
Remember, Trust in the Lord, Love like the Lord and Walk with the Lord. TLW
who do we follow? thelawdsway
