Perspective is interesting because you only get it once you change vantage points. I am in florida right now, been here for most of Feb. (I will have been in Buffalo for six days in Feb.) I spent a week in Ocala, then was home for few days then went with the family down to ft. myers beach for a week with my parents and brothers we then went from there to sarasota where we will be till early next week then back to Buffalo. Yestereday and today there has been a cold snap across the eastern part of the country. I see it has been in the single digits in Buffalo. Today it will be about 65 and sunny in Sarasota, we are trying to find things to do "inside" because it is so cold here today. If this weather was in Buffalo we would be trying to find things to do "outside" because it is so warm and beautiful. I guess this is what they call perspective. The ability to have perspective is the ability to look beyond ourselves. I remember thinking that I felt alot of pressure when I was in college. That didn't compare to when I had to work fulltime. I used to think not getting 8hrs of sleep in a night would be exhausting. Now I don't remember the last time I had that much in one night ( I went to bed @ 11:30 last night was up 2 times in the night with kids, cammy finally was up for good at 5 am so we watched Dora, a normal night for me). I thought 1 kid was too much responsibility at the time, now I have multiplied by three). I used to stress about money when I had a job, then I lost it. Getting sick or hurt with health insurance was a pain, without health insurance is stressful. What I am constantly reminding myself is to keep everything in perspective, to continue stepping back to get a bigger picture of myself and my world. I have to keep on going on trips down memory lane. I need to see faces and villages of places I have traveled. Job makes a great statement in the midst of some really bad personal stuff that is happening to him, he says "Blessed be the name of the Lord." So I try to smile, laugh, enjoy my family and friends and thank God for all of it, in the midst of all of it. My family has gone through some tough stuff in the last couple of weeks but we continue to say "Blessed be the name of the Lord."
