The general idea of the post was to discover who would look beyond the immediate foreground.
In the foreground, there are cracks in the sidewalk, a broken down building, weeds growing throughout the area. One person thought they saw a cat. However, this post came about one spring morning as I was running my mundane errands.
With too many things to do, and not enough time to do it in, I glanced over as I sat in traffic and this was the scene before me.
This is a local cabin which has long since been abandoned. However, what caught my undivided attention, were the beautiful cool refreshing mountains in the back ground. As I looked past the immediate wreckage before me, I set my eyes and my hope beyond the circumstances which surrounded me.
Life is long, and full of hardships. If we focus on the moment, we will be swallowed in the details of the problems and forget to look beyond. We may become overwhelmed and despair. No matter your immediate circumstance, ask God for the grace to look into the distance, look past the moment. Learn to hope, dare to reach. This moment shall pass, the present hardship will come to a resolution and clear skies lay ahead in the not so distant future.
Look up.
Once the hardship is behind us, we will find, it really wasn't as bad as we imagined it to be.
Psalm 121: 1 & 2
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord..."
The mountains cannot help me in times of despair, but their very existence is a standing reminder from "whence cometh our help."
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