Perspective

A little news to start the day: Because I cannot do all the things I’d like with Blogger, I’ve been working on putting up a personal web page. It will still include daily blogs. (The world “daily” should be read very loosely). I’ll post here to let everyone know when it is up and running, but until then you can continue to find my blogs here. Anyway, in the process of putting together the web page, I was sorting through some of my pictures and I ran across these two.

Like the first picture, every life has a few fallen arches - a few dreams that didn’t quite come true, a few hopes that fall short, a few enormous problems that were not expected. These fallen arches can turn the picture of what life was supposed to be into something unsymmetrical, unexplainable, and unpleasant. However there is an inspirational mix of beauty and strength in one who chooses not to avoid the arches, but allows God to take them right into the middle. The perspective from there is unlike any other. No, the arches don’t magically disappear. But, sometimes very quickly, and sometimes long down the road, this perspective allows the beauty to become clear. Only from this perspective do the arches change from obstacles to things of symmetry and beauty revealing God’s plans.