When your focus is always right in front of you, you sometimes miss the beauty.
My hubby, my kids and I, have been working on remodeling our deck, since the summer. Being do-it-yourselfers, requires lots of time and patience. Getting any work done requires the weather to cooperate, as well as open schedules, which tend to be rare when you are raising teenagers.
But, lately, we have had spring weather in February, and we have been making loads of progress. Last weekend, we finally got to the point where we could nail new boards down. My hubby was on a roll and spent hours nailing. We worked on Saturday, until we ran out of daylight.
On Sunday morning, before church, he came in with a big smile and asked me if I had walked out on the new boards yet. I told him I had not. He told me it was like being in a tree house and that he hadn’t taken the time to notice and certainly not to appreciate, the scenery, because he had been working so hard and looking down at the nails, the entire time.
I joined him outside and I was impressed.
Looking up, completely changed the scenery.
I thought about our conversation all day long. I thought about how focused we can get on what we are working on. Sometimes it’s a project. Sometimes it’s a problem. Sometimes it’s a goal. Whatever it is, we can put all of our time and energy on getting finished and we miss the beauty along the way.
Sometimes that beauty is actual scenery. Sometimes that beauty is a relationship that needs our attention, whether we are busy are not. Sometimes that beauty is a gentle tap from God, who wants to show us something that we are missing.
Whatever the case may be, I think it’s always important to strive to keep what happens to be driving us at the moment, in some kind of perspective. It’s important to remember what is most important and what will still be important, long after whatever we are focused on, has passed.
A Sunday morning conversation with my hubby reminded me. Perhaps you needed reminding too.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂