Sometimes I get out of myself by getting myself outside. Working in the yard, mowing or exercising, whatever it takes to do something that helps me get my mind on something else besides my problems or worries. It’s good to look around you and pay attention to the natural world. Just looking up at the right moment and I found this guy sitting patiently on my window screen.

I once read a book (whose title escapes me now) about teaching your children to have a spiritual life and the author related the first time she realized what God might be like. She was a child playing outside and had laid down by a sidewalk to watch ants do their ‘ant thing’ coming and going to their colony. She watched the tiny ants crawl through her shadow completely oblivious to her presence when it dawned on her that maybe this is what it was like with humans and God. We go about our day doing our ‘human thing’ wrapped up in our own little lives completely oblivious to God (nature, the universe or whatever you’d like to call it!) looking over our every move. 

When I’m out of doors I look at nature and feel that I’m not alone anymore. My concerns are big to me but really very small in comparison to the larger view of life. Life isn’t perfect for anyone or anything. Take a glimpse through nature’s window and forget yourself . . . if only for a moment and you may see that life is perfectly imperfect for all of us.

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