There are experiences in life that when you are going through them all you dream about is escape. Everything on the outside of your small window seems idyllic and tranquil and unfair. You wonder how you got stuck behind the closed doors and why everyone else gets to stay out.
Then as time passes, and the small window cracks, you feel some of the fresh air coming in from the outside, and with it comes a new perspective. As the window opens even further you begin to forget the agony from the inside, and the time shut-in doesn’t seem so bad. You find yourself, after finally stepping outside and perusing around a while, asking, “If I could choose so, would I do it all over again?”
- Everything we see is temporary. (2 Corinthians 4:18)
- We have eternity to look forward to. (John 14:1-4)
- We are here to bring people to Jesus. (Matthew 28:19-20)
However, even now John and I don’t always use this new lens. As the days separate us further from our experience, we often forget about the new lens we received, and we go back to using those same old lenses that display our rights, our needs, ourselves, instead of each other.
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