Seeing things anew

Before my recent bush travels a friend of mine encouraged me to see things anew on this trip, to see things like I was seeing them for the first time. I thought how do I do that? I started looking and I began to see how far God has brought me during these past two and a half years. I began to see things that I had become accustomed to on my travels, things such as bathrooms. I remember one of my first trips out to the bush I barely drank any water because I didn’t want to use the bush bathroom. Now that isn’t as much of an issue. Or how I can eat supper at 10pm by the light of a kerosene lamp and be okay with it even if it is incredibly hard to see the chicken pieces.

Another way to look at it is how God wants us to see things. He wants us to focus on the present, not on the past and not on the future. The things in the past we need to learn from and build on to head toward things in the future. As Psalm 118 says this is the day the Lord has made we need to rejoice and be glad in it. Easier said than done on some days isn’t it?