I read or heard somewhere that when the hostage John McCarthy was released he had trouble with perspective, given that for so many years he had not looked into the distance he had to relearn the idea that large things far away could be the same size as small things close up.

 

I thought on that on Sunday as I came out of church because I had entered thinking of the building with an issue which had weighed heavily on me all over the weekend, however as the service progressed the focus began to change and God became the most important thing again. From that angle my worry didn't seem so bad and I started to feel much more hopeful. It was all, as they say, "back in perspective."

 

How easily it can happen that our perspective changes, that we focus on problems and issues rather than God, sometimes we too need to relearn and make adjustments to our perspective.

 

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace."