“So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.” Hebrews 2:1 NLT

Many of us have unknowingly experienced a strange theory called The Mandela Effect. The phenomena was named for our incorrect recollections of Nelson Mandela’s death while in prison in the 1980’s. Many claim to have seen clips of his funeral on television, despite the fact that his death occurred 30 years later. Basically we share false memories of random events, names, and song lyrics that never actually occurred, causing us to believe we’ve either experienced a parallel universe, or we’ve gone mad.

The song We Are The Champions has a much different ending than most of us remember. We recall Freddie Mercury singing “No time for losers, cause we are the champions…of the world” but the song ends without the lyrics “of the world” ever being sung.

We remember Darth Vader’s famous line as “Luke, I am your father” when the actual line is “NO, I am your father.”

The reality of this phenomenon is actually a glitch in our own memory.

Truth:  WE HEAR OR SEE ONLY A FRACTION OF THE TRUTH.

There are three sides to every story: Your side, my side and then there’s the truth. We live in an internet filled, photo-shopped, agenda driven world of pictures and one-sided stories where truth is obscure and hard to find.

With so much information at our fingertips, we have to work hard at recognizing truth when we see or hear it. If we do not listen carefully to what we hear or pay close attention to what we see, we may drift away from the actual truth.

But don’t take my word for it. Go ask “Mirror, Mirror on the wall.”

~Julia