Perspective

February 26, 2014

         Recently, I heard a great illustration. The speaker talked about looking at the back of a beautiful old tapestry, and only seeing a mess. The problem, he said, was that we was looking at the wrong side. In order to see it clearly, he had to get a different perspective.
 
          I think this difference-making business is like that. It's nearly impossible to tell if you're making a difference when you're doing it. It's only later, after time has passed, and you are removed from the situation, that you can see what difference was made. Sometimes the simplest comment or conversation can make the biggest difference at all. I've mentioned a conversation from years ago with a now-friend that made all the difference in how I viewed my relationship with Jesus, and how I dealt with being single in my mid- to late-twenties. She had no clue how important that conversation would be to me. She just knew the Spirit had put it on her heart to say those things.

        So as I try to document my quest to make a difference, I struggle to know what to write. Do I include the conversation with the cashier at the grocery store? The car I let cut in front of me in traffic? How do I know what made a difference? I can't. At least not right now. All I can do is live my life in a way that glorifies God, and know that He will make all the difference in the world around me.