As I look at the incredible design of the natural world around me, I am amazed at how intricately it all works together. I realize that I was born with all these intricacies and am challenged to discovering my part in a bigger design. I am reminded that I am not an accident, but that I have real value and purpose.
As I consider creation and the creator, all so much bigger than myself, and then understand how I am so designed with such purpose; and that it all works every day without falling apart. I am astounded, instead of focusing on what is wrong with the world around me. I am better able to see what is so right about the world around me, instead of focusing on all the chaos. I can focus on the design and order that is there if I choose to look for it.
There is a story about a river ferry operator in the days of the westward expansion in the USA. As pioneering families would come aboard, they would eagerly ask how things were in the next town. The operator would wisely ask them how things were in the town that they had left. If they told him that it was really bad and they had to get out, he would let them know that it probably wouldn’t be much better in the town to come. If they told him that they had come from a fantastic town, but they were leaving to search for more land opportunity, he would tell them that they would most likely find the next town quite welcoming and friendly. Either way, they would find what they were bringing with them. Their own attitudes would determine their future.
I would challenge each one of you reading this to reexamine what you are taking with you to your future. Much of the media and culture around you is clamoring to draw your attention towards the negative aspects of our society and culture. But, if you choose, you can center down and bring your focus onto what is good and honorable, lovely, and right. You have a choice in what you focus on and what you believe. You have a choice on what you spend your hours and energies on. Make it a good choice!
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