Last week a friend asked me how I was. I replied that I’d been having a bit of trouble lately seeing the forest for the trees. I’m a person who, every now and again, has to get up above the trees to see the forest – to get above the individual incidents or the worries or the annoyances or whatever and see the whole picture of where God is at and where God is leading.
Last night I was at a meeting where we were talking about the “win” for our ministry. Some of us were looking at the big picture to see what God is doing. And later I was able to tell my husband that I think I’m little by little beginning to do that again – do reorient my life, even just a little, toward bigger pictures of goals for myself, our family, child rearing, etc. after a long 18 months or so of being very focused on each “tree” in life.
May we always see God’s Big Picture, know the difference between “trees” and the “forest” of our life, and have self discipline and courage to go apart and seek the Father for our perspective. May God bless us with what we need to see, to know, to understand so that we can participate in the plans he has for us and for our Kingdom work. And may God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be honored by our lives. Amen.