Prespective

Life is all about perspective isn't it?

My brother Joe and his family came up to camp over Christmas break.  We were forced to move into the dining hall, as most of you know, because the furnace went out in the house.  Well, while Joe was here we did some woodsplitting-it's what we do for fun!  For those of you who have been on the camp, you know the old picnic shelter that we used for stacking split wood.  Well, as you can see by the photo, it came crashing down under the weight of all the snow we had.  That is a very interesting story.  We were working there for a couple of hours in the morning and knocked off for lunch.  When we came back an hour later the building had collapsed right on our work.

Now, right away I had a brilliant idea.  I could take a photo and use it as a fund raising promo for the camp.  "Look, we need your money!"  But Joe, having a different perspective said "No, you'd better not do that!"  I thought it was a great idea but he got me thinking.  I had told him that some of our district leaders would like to close the camp, feeling God's resources would be better served elsewhere.  Joe said "They will see this and say the camp is in dis-repair, no sense in putting any more money into it."  And he is right, some folks will have that persective.  And then I thought, maybe others will see that the furnace just quit, and the roof of this shed collapsed (incidently, the furnace in the dining hall was acting up at the same time), maybe we hired the wrong guy and I'll get fired-"look at all the money you are costing us, Mark!"

Finally, I came to the right perspective:  God was watching over us, protecting us as He always does, and He sent us to lunch at just the right moment.  In doing so we were protected from injury when the roof collapsed!

God is so good to us!

So life is all about persective.

As a follower of Christ we should not have a negative persective on life.  We have a loving, heavenly Father watching over us.  Yes, difficult times will come.  Bad things happen to good people.  But God is with us through it all.  And He has prepared a place for us to be with Him for all eternity!
What more could we ask for! 

Psalm 139