Persepctive, Part Two

So, as I am telling Steve about my blog, lo and behold, what light doth from yonder window breaks?  Yep, you guessed it:  the sun rise!  While I was busy reflecting on what my neighbours COULD NOT see, I forgot about what they COULD see from their vantage point, just at a different time of the day.  Hmn:  timing.  It certainly has its way of changing the perspective of things, now doesn't it?                                                              

So, as I am busy pondering that one, another thought comes to me:  movement.  As I was so busy waiting for the sun to rise so I could add this addendum to my blog, I was impatient, wondering if it was ever going to come out.  I went back and forth, from the bathroom window to the back porch, awaiting its arrival.  It was cold out there and I was getting a little aggravated, wondering why the sun wasn’t cooperating with me.  I stepped to my right and...there it was.  The brilliance of it nearly blinded me but, you see, I had to move.  Just a little to my right.  Just had to look past the trees and there, right there it was.  

Mmn hmn.  

Reminds me of that song by FFH “Lord Move...Or Move Me.”  Sometimes we have to get out of our comfort zone (even if that means stepping into the cold) to see the big picture:  to see the Son.  

Anyways, just thought I’d add these thoughts to this morning’s blog.  Hope you enjoy them!

Perspective

If you were to ask my neighbours what the big deal is, why I keep staring so intently at their house, day after day, week after week, I am sure they would be dumbfounded to know that I do so because of all of the marvelous sunsets I am witnessing just beyond their vantage point.  I mean, after all, we share the same sky, right?  We are within almost shouting distance of one another.  Why, should they look up at the same sky I am enthralled with, they’d probably think I had lost what marbles I had left.  “What’s the big deal” they might ask one another.  “I don’t see anything but darkness setting in.”  They’d probably shake their heads, laugh at their crazy neighbour, and go back inside, perhaps just every so often going to their back window to check and see if maybe, just maybe ol’ Stef was on to something after all.

But they wouldn’t see it.  

However, should you ask my neighbour up on the hill, she might have a completely different reaction.  “See it?” she’d exclaim.  “Why you, Stefanie, are only getting a glimpse of what rapturous beauty I am beholding!  If so, you’d be at my house every night, waiting for the opportunity to see what God paints next!”

Perspective.  From one angle, things look this way.  From another’s point of view the facts may not be as evident.  And from still another’s one would realize, as my friend Susan once said, there’s three sides to every story:  yours, mine, and the truth.

As things are presented to you today, friends, I encourage you to check out the other sides of the “details” given and see if perhaps you should examine them from another angle before making your final conclusion.  Things are not always what they seem and sometimes we just have to move a little to gain a more vivid accounting of what has been put before us so that we can see if a fair accounting is taking place or if we are only seeing through the glass dimly.

Let’s pray!

Well, once again Father, this blog did not go where I thought it was going to!  Nonetheless, as my readers examine it, I pray that this example of perspective, of examining our motives and the motives of others will encourage us to think for ourselves instead of just accepting things at face value.  Too often we are too lazy to seek out the truth, relying instead on others’ thoughts and “knowledge” about situations to find that there just may be another point of view out there that is more trustworthy, more eye-opening, and better able to point us to You, the real Truth.

Help us, I ask, to seek You today in all that we do, say, and offer to others.  In the radiant name of Christ Jesus I pray, amen.  Oh, and Lord?  Thanks for the beautiful sunsets!  I appreciate them!