It’s All About Perspective
I have had a long few days at work and will have a few more in the coming weeks. So, when I got home I wanted to relax and just veg out. That is not what I got to do. First I was grateful that my mother offered to make me some eggs and bacon. On a side note, bacon is one of, if not my favorite foods; followed closely by a good pepperoni pizza. As I was starting to sit down to relax my sister asked for some help with building the new vanity for our bathroom. Not what I had wanted to do, but I truly enjoy building things so I was willing to help. After finishing my dinner, yum bacon, and completing as much of the vanity building process as possible before I install it tomorrow I went downstairs to read and relax.
As I began reading my mom and sister began talking. First one, then the other! I was getting annoyed, but decided that it was my own fault for sitting in the family room where they were likely to interact and talk. My sister left and things quieted down, then my mom kept stopping her reading to tell me about the neat things in her book. She had just gotten a new Bible and was stopping every few minutes to tell me about a neat thing in it. First was the timeline at the front, it even had things like the founding of Japan and the invention of false teeth. Next was about something called the harmony of the gospels. It lets you see where the stories in each of the gospels fall in comparison to the events in the other gospels. Finally, she was sharing about the biographies of people found through the Bible in the books the people are central characters in.
If I am going to be honest I was getting annoyed. I had come downstairs to read and relax, and here she was stopping her own reading to talk to me and distract me from my reading. Then God got ahold of my heart and turned it around on me. Here I was sitting calmly and rationally reading Radical and struggling with loving God and living for Him. But there, mere feet form me my mom sat enthralled with God, and the features of her new Bible that could help her grow closer to God. Her sharing was caused by upswells of joy about her love letter from God and the new ways it would help her understand God and his love for her better.
With those thoughts my perspective changed, and I was glad, some might even say happy that my mom was stopping me to share about what was exciting her. This is just a reminder of how important our perspective of events and circumstances can be. Seek God in each moment, ask Him to help you find the perspective that honors Him throughout your day.
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