Skyline

This is the skyline of my city, and then I've included the skyline of Tokyo from my trip last year, taken from the Tokyo Government Building. 

It is amazing how different everything looks when we change our perspective. When we are down in the streets, everything looms in front of us, and the buildings look enormous. But from up high, those same buildings look a lot smaller.

One of the shifts I am having to make constantly in my life is to change my perspective and look outward--toward God--than inward--toward myself. When I start looking at my life overall, and my individual situations, I have had so much more peace when I look to how God sees my situation, than how I see my situation. Ultimately, one of my biggest problems is to make a god out of things, events, even other people, and to center my life around those things. When I look outward and center my life around God, that is when my perspective changes, and I can not only be more of the person that God wants me to be, but also live more of the peace-filled, fruit-filled life that He intended.

"How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?

    How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I wrestle with my thoughts

    and day after day have sorrow in my heart?

    How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Look on me and answer, Lord my God.

    Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”

    and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in your unfailing love;

    my heart rejoices in your salvation.

I will sing the Lord’s praise,

    for he has been good to me."

--Psalms 13: 1-6