Turn Over!

We traveled long and late to Nashville last night.  Our flight was delayed ultimately more than three hours after a series of glitches.  At one point all the passengers were loaded on and off the plane twice.  When we finally arrived at our destination, we could have flown overseas to Europe in less time.  Rarely we fly -- the odometer on our car will testify -- but we flew for this short weekend trip.  Our grand baby will be dedicated to the LORD this Sunday, and we will attend a graduation dinner for our daughter who is finishing her medical residency, a long seven year adventure of medical school and residency training

Our four-month-old grandson Adrian was playing early this morning on his play mat, reaching for toys and taking in all the world around him.  Suddenly, he pulled up his chubby legs, tucked in his arms like an Olympic diver, and turned over.  He looked startled, as if to say, "Whoa, everything looks so different."   His world suddenly became much larger.

Nothing had changed except his perspective.  The mat was the same, the toys had not moved, but Adrian saw it all differently.

And then as quickly as he turned over once, he rolled again from his stomach to his back, off the mat and into new territory all together.

God has the power not just to deliver me from a heavy situation or a narrow squeak, but He transforms my perspective to see all things new -- to see life from His eyes.   I just need to be willing to roll with Him.  It is not just that I see my surroundings differently, but a whole new path through it.

LORD,
   how can I see this thing differently
           with fresh eyes
           a gracious heart,
           a wisdom that is not my own.

This situation.
This relationship.
This place.
This "impossibility."
This desperation.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts.

                           Isaiah 55.9

Turn over.
Let Him surprise you.