All About Perspective

Sometimes, like this morning......nostalgia sets in, and i begin to remember the holiday seasons of the past :)

I remember being a child @ Christmas......the anticipation of the season and all it would bring.  The beautiful pine aroma of the Christmas tree.  I loved shaping, painting, then baking....but most of all, eating all types of cookies.  Sometimes my soul longs for the hope of that faithful childlike perspective, where ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE if i believed! 

As an adult, i now have a different perspective.  Sometimes belief in possibilities seems much more difficult to grasp, much less hold onto.  As i lay here listening to Christmas music on Pandora, my mind  began wondering about the different 'characters' in the Christmas Story.  I wonder how Joseph could trust that Mary had been faithful, while enduring the ridicule of the townspeople.  Also, how Mary could trust God would fulfill His promise that it would all be worth it when she finally gave birth to the Messiah.  Did the shepards immediately just abondon their posts to follow some star up in the sky.......i mean they must have hesitated to trust God with that one!  Ha.

I think what makes these otherwise very ordinary people, capable of such extraordinary things is their perspective.  They believed God, and that He could do "exceeding abundantly above all they asked or thought".  Sunday, i will begin taking new meds, and my goal is to maintain the same kind of perspective...... believing that God still works miracles in the lives of those who believe. 

"And God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us."  -Ephesians 3:20