What Do You See

By Jerry Large

Hebrews 12:1–2

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.



Remember always: You add as much suffering to the world by taking offense, as you do by giving offense.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781645315346

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What Do You See

Jerry Large

Copyright © 2019 Jerry Large

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2019

ISBN 978-1-64531-533-9 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64531-534-6 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Introduction

Many of us have come to a place in our lives that we simply have thrown our hands up and asked ourselves, What’s the point? It doesn’t matter what walk of life you are in; that question comes up to all of us at some point in our lives:

You might have no money and simply are trying to survive from day to day.

You might have a job and trying to simply get by from month to month.

You might have all the money in the world and check your bottom line daily over your morning cup of coffee.

It doesn’t matter, because we are all in the same boat, or walking on the same planet. My cousin Greg Gensen Sr. once told me a story about a guy who appeared to be having a bad day. Greg asked the man why he looked so depressed. The man sincerely replied, My jet engine would not start up this morning. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

Well Greg, being a blue-collar worker, laughed and replied, Are you kidding? Yeah, I just hate it when my jet engine doesn’t start up!

No matter how big or how small your problems are, if you are at the point of cashing it all in, please read my book first.

If you are simply seeking just a little more clarity in life, please read my book.

If you are looking for some truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God, please read my book to see what you can see!

If all is well, and you need nothing more in your life. Thank you for purchasing my book!

Chapter 1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen. 1:1, KJV)

Well, you all have read this in the Holy Bible; at least I would hope that you have read up to this point anyway. It is one of the most important verses in the entire Bible! There is so much that we as human beings are simply missing in the picture of life. I have heard it said that when all else fails, read directions. Well, life did come with an instruction manual: it’s called the Holy Bible. Unfortunately, however, if people really thought it was an instruction manual for and of Life, maybe more people would read it!

I am a low-voltage electrical technician here in the 2012 calendar year. I was born in Amarillo, Texas, on May 11, 1957; and I can remember a few images in my mind while I was still not even five years of age.

I still have an image in my mind of a Goodyear Blimp flying in the dark sky, and the bright red letters lit up so that everyone could see it in the dark. I can remember an old man talking to me in his garden while I watched him pick his green beans. I also remember, or have an image of, the day my mom, Rosie May Large (Gensen), and my dad, Joseph Dan Large, packed up a U-Haul trailer for our move away from the place that we were living at in San Antonio, Texas. I also remember other little things, such as the first time I was given canned spinach to eat, and to this day, because of that traumatic experience, I simply cannot stick that stuff into my mouth to eat it.

It is so amazing that we as human beings can only think one thought at a time. It does not matter how talented you are in multitasking—you are still only thinking one thought at a time. With our short-term memory and our long-term memory being in two different places in our brain, we can develop habits that can help us press on the brakes at a red light, and the gas pedal when the light turns green. Many people call this our subconscious mind; however, the bottom line is that we are still storing one image, with one thought at a time, into our chemical memory banks.

So how does this alter what we believe, or perhaps how we relate with others that have a completely different image database in their chemical memory bank? Well, lets’ see what you see! Imagine if you were an alien from a distant galaxy in outer space, since we have such great imaginations! This life-form, however, has no ears and has no mouth with which to communicate such as ourselves. Now these aliens would have advanced somehow into some form of communication between themselves. It might be a form of body language, or hand signs, or even a form of feet signs, finger signs, smell, touch, or even just some sort of a look between two beings. There are endless possibilities of communication that we could see in their lives; however, do you think that their images would be different in their chemical memories than in ours?

Just think: no nagging, lying, hollering, manipulating, and no story-telling. How about this: no ordering, commanding, demanding, or anything that would come from our mouths and voices. I know, I know. How do they eat? Come on! Get to the point! What do you see in us that would not be there if we did not learn by hearing sounds coming into our ears, and we all know what all kinds of sounds that the human mouth can make. Do you think that we would just be boring, and even worse within our own thoughts? Do you think that we would be like stagnant water, with no fun, no life, and maybe no direction?

No, no, no.

Look—I mean, really look. It would be exactly the opposite! Let’s get back to a thought of what it would be like to be aliens from a