Look Through Different Lenses

Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them by name. Because of his mighty strength not one of them is missing. Isaiah 40:26 NIV

A lot of hype brought us into Monday. Some traveled many miles so they could be in the dark during the day time. Some people constantly received phone calls, texts, and e-mails from the schools with warnings. We heard the same warnings on the news. There were even warnings from the pet stores about your pets. Sometimes all of this hoopla makes me want to turn away from the event.

Deep down though I was excited and was even more excited that I would have my afterschoolers when the main part of the eclipse happened around here. I had planned to make boxes for safe viewing or at least paper viewers for them to experience the eclipse. My daughter though was able to get us six pairs of those special glasses. So when each family member took his/her pair that left me with two. I figured we could share.

I tried to take pictures with my camera, but when I looked at the pictures the sun looked like it usually looks. I thought, "well maybe it's not really happening here." I continued to take a few pictures all with the same results. When I took the kids out to look at this event, I wasn't really expecting much. I put on my wonderful glasses and looked up. What a difference!

The moon was making it's way across the sun! The black appeared in front of the orange. It was amazing! We each took turns to view this event. We even saw when the moon covered 81% of the sun, that's the most we saw here. My family kept reporting to each other, and we all shared our glasses so others could see.

This of course got my mind thinking how different things seem when we look through different lenses. A group of people will see things one way and another group will see things another way. I remember viewing things a certain way and it wasn't until I surrendered to God completely that I see things completely different I now see things with different lenses.

One change is the way I see money. I used to worry all the time about having enough money. I also figured money was a worldly thing, so I didn't need to talk to God about it. After my complete surrender to Him, I now realize the money I earn is actually God's. He allows me to earn what I need and sometimes more if I am wise with the amount He blesses me with. Looking at money through God's eyes sure has made my life less stressful.

Maybe something you're looking at it can use a new view, maybe you need to look at it through God's eyes. Trust me the view is awesome!