How we look at stuff is based on how we've lived.
Duh, of course it is. If you know me at all, you know I love to find super profound things in super obvious things. So, yes, of course my perspective is based on what I've been through and how my life has gone. I have found that my personal perspective has limited how I perceive things I've been through.
People who hear my medical stuff over the past couple years have pointed out that it was a lot. I mean, I get that it was, but actually listing it out all at once to another person, I can see why they tell me that, but going through it, it was all about getting healthy and then cancer and stuff.
My perspective is different though. I know I've been through all kinds of things, but I see it for more than 8 surgeries and chucking a couple body parts I wasn't using anyway. I see cancer as the time I learned that I love resin art. Killing the cancer in my body led to starting SLO Poured Creations. I just got my business license so I'm all official.
If you're wondering why I'm not asking why God let these crazy, bad medical things happen to me, it's simple. I told God I was tired. I felt frenzied and was always on the go. I was a human doing. He taught me to rest. My prayer is answered. I have a new pace in life and it is beautiful. Perspective shift was what I needed.