Today’s post was submitted by my lovely wife, Grace. Thank you babe for your support as we Do Life Together, thanking God for what He has given us and showing others the Fruit! Here, is my wonderful wife Grace with her Perspective!
Have you ever lost something….something you thought you wouldn’t be able to lose and if you did, certainly, you’d be able to find it since it was so obvious…..
Well last week, while during the Sunday mowing adventure, my husband was multi-tasking (that is another story) and he was trimming multi-flora rose with loppers – the big ones used for shrubs/bushes, that had a red handle on them. Well, I got a call from him, from the yard, asking for help in trying to find the loppers he lost (aka fell off the mower), he had been out in the area, near the buffer, searching for over 10-minutes. He walked and re-walked the area he was in, and he literally retraced his steps (or his mowing/trimming route) and out loud told me where he used the loppers and asked for help in trying to find them. For crying out loud they are about 36 inches long and have a red handle, certainly, 2 grown adults could find them stuck in the green/brown grass and even in the field area with the tall grasses. Well, I tried to help him. We spent another 15 minutes at the task, and we even went up the tree line all the way to the other end of our property, approximately 800 feet. And we found NOTHING….. We ended up just giving up, knowing that one day, they would show up and hopefully they wouldn’t get mowed over in the future. We knew if we did find them, they would be rusted from being outside.
Monday mid-morning, the kids got off to work/school, all already having driven out the driveway which parallels the grass. It was predicted to be a rainy day. Before my workday got really busy, I needed to and wanted to get an item in the mailbox. I wanted to get in a quick- walk up the driveway, at least to stretch my legs before the rain set in. I asked my husband to join me. We do this walk often. It gives us about 6-minutes to chat and to walk a 1200-foot round trip up and back from the house to the mailbox- we usually talk about what is for dinner, if we go in the morning, or if in the afternoon, what the evening activities are going to be and who will do what. Well, as we were walking and talking, about 30-seconds into our walk, GUESS what we FOUND?…… the LOPPERS! They had fallen off the mower deck and were near the driveway line of grass and not even near anywhere he thought they would have gone missing. It made me realize, as we all do at times, that just changing your perspective can help you find something.
A few weeks earlier, while conducting a litter-roadside clean-up, me and my daughter picked up a fair amount of trash, heading east on a roadway. We got to the end of our designated area and thought we did a good job and headed back to our starting point, only to find more trash. Surely this wasn’t new trash, it just happened to be we were walking a different direction and now saw things from a different PERSPECTIVE.
Funny how that works- you can SAY you are looking REALLY hard for something or are REALLY paying attention to details, when all of a sudden you realize you have missed something or you have found something that was lost, absolutely positive you had been in that same area looking or seeing (or hearing) already. Well, it makes you realize that we do MISS things, we do not REALIZE things- especially things that are lost or missing, even after we think we’ve accomplished something really great.
Guess what? We are HUMAN. We can embrace that we don’t SEE or HEAR all that we should, and we can admit that too. The CHALLENGE is what do you do next? Do you rant and rave and get mad because you missed it or can’t find it, OR do you LEARN and GROW from the experience and perhaps, CHUCKLE at the fact that we have found what we are looking for and it is sometimes right in front of us.
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:28 (NIV)
So how can you change your perspective today?
What is God’s perspective on this?
End Story
Thank you, Grace for your support of Me – Your husband of 25 years! Thank you for supporting me and The Mission of Give Your Story. Through God’s mercy we have this ministry.
Love – Grace!