I can see clearly now...

If you're someone who depends on glasses or contacts, you know what it's like not to have them. I remember the moment I first started using glasses. The doctor said, "Puts the leaves on the trees, doesn't it?" What a way to put it! I didn't realize that everything I was seeing before then was a blur. The leaves on the trees. The street signs. The moles on my face. I had my glasses off as I did my hair one morning. I was primping and posing. I thought it was perfect! Then I put my glasses on. Let's just say... there were quite a few stray hairs out of place. I was not as foxy as I thought I was. :) It got me thinking a lot about clarity. If we don't look at things with the proper perspective, things can look very skewed. Bad situations can seem worse. Great situations can seem like burdens. Sometimes the way we grew up can give us blurred perspectives. Hurt feelings can give blurred perspectives. Even hunger can give blurred perspectives. Have you ever told someone off at work because you skipped breakfast? I'm making an attempt to clear the fog in my life. To scrape away the things that have skewed my point of view.

James 1:5
"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you."

Lord, please clear the fog ahead of me. The fog in my head and in my heart. Help me to forgive without an apology. Help me to love without pretense. Help me to see the good in people... through whatever fog that may cloud my view of them. I ask for wisdom and clarity for myself and for my relationships. Amen.
~MDT