(Not a Sermon. Not a Miracle. Just a Shift in Perspective I Didn’t Expect.)
I’ve been talking to the Man Upstairs.
Relax.
I’m not starting a religion.
I’m not quoting scripture.
I’m not claiming divine Wi-Fi.
I’m just saying…
some conversations tilt your whole field of vision.
And this one did.
At first, it felt simple.
Almost casual.
Like small talk with while the world hums in the background.
But the longer I sat with it, the stranger it got.
Not spooky-strange.
Clear-strange.
The kind where you don’t hear answers —
you start seeing them.
Here’s what shifted:
I stopped looking at problems as individual failures
and started seeing them as systems.
I stopped blaming people for being broken
and started noticing how perfectly designed the pressure is.
The struggle.
The conflict.
The control.
It’s not random.
It’s patterned.
From that angle —
way up there, metaphorically speaking —
the extremes started to look ridiculous.
Not tragic-ridiculous.
Engineered ridiculous.
How can abundance and desperation exist side by side like this?
How can knowledge be everywhere and wisdom so rare?
How can freedom be advertised while control tightens quietly?
Those gaps don’t happen by accident.
They’re maintained.
Talking to the Man Upstairs didn’t give me answers.
It gave me altitude.
And from up there, you can see how unnecessary the divide really is.
How much of the suffering isn’t natural —
it’s curated.
How many conflicts could dissolve
if power stopped feeding on separation.
What really got me was this:
None of it has to be this way.
The extremes.
The cruelty.
The manufactured chaos.
They shouldn’t exist.
They don’t need to exist.
And they only continue because too many people are forced to stay looking down instead of around.
I didn’t walk away holier.
I walked away clearer.
Less angry.
More aware.
When you zoom out far enough,
you stop asking “What’s wrong with people?”
and start asking “Who benefits from keeping it this way?”
That’s not blasphemy.
That’s perception.
So yeah — I still talk to the Man Upstairs.
Not because I expect miracles.
But because sometimes you need a higher vantage point
to remember that the world’s biggest problems
aren’t inevitable.
They’re negotiable.
And once you see that?
You don’t just write differently.
You live differently.