During a recent family getaway, we visited a museum, and as part of the visit, we stepped into an immersive kaleidoscope-inspired optical illusion experience.
I was not quite prepared for what it would feel like…
To get through it, you had to walk up a narrow stairway enclosed by blackout curtains, surrounded by flashing lights and moving visuals. The moment I stepped in, my senses began to argue with reality.
It felt like I was spinning…
Like the world was turning upside down.
Like I had stepped into some unstable moving structure that could throw me off balance at any moment.
Yet, none of it was true. The staircase itself was perfectly steady. Nothing was actually moving. It was all an illusion.
Even though I knew that intellectually, the experience still felt unsettling. My senses were convinced something was wrong.
Isn’t that what life sometimes feels like?
Moments when circumstances come at you so hard that everything feels unstable.
A difficult conversation.
Unexpected news.
Financial pressure.
Disappointment.
Grief.
Waiting seasons that seem to stretch endlessly.
Moments when your emotions begin telling a story that feels frighteningly real:
‘Everything is falling apart’, ‘You’re losing control’, ´Things will never settle again’….
But feelings are not always faithful narrators.
Sometimes what we experience emotionally is not the full picture of what is actually happening.
That experience reminded me of something deeply comforting about walking with God.
Peace is not the absence of disorienting moments. Peace is knowing what remains true in the middle of them.
I recently reflected on a related truth in my post, Even This Mountain Can Move, where I explored how things that seem permanent and immovable are still subject to God’s power and timing.
Because the truth is God does not become unstable because our circumstances do. His presence does not disappear because life feels chaotic. His promises do not weaken because our emotions are loud.
Isaiah 26:3 says:
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” (KJV)
This verse does not promise peace because life is calm. It promises peace because the mind is anchored. Stayed. Fixed. Held steady.
That is what faith does.
Faith does not always change the visuals immediately. Sometimes the lights still flash. Sometimes the path still feels strange. Sometimes your emotions still need time to settle.
But faith reminds you what is true. The staircase is still steady. God is still faithful. The light is still ahead.
And you can keep moving, not because everything feels easy, but because your heart knows Who holds you.
Maybe life feels upside down for you right now.
Maybe your senses are telling you one story while God’s truth tells another.
Hold on to what is true. Fix your mind on Him.
The peace may not always make logical sense, but it will hold.
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