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Looking Up!

 Looking Up!


There are times we feel down. Burdened. Concerned.

 Look up! See the glorious blue sky. See the radiant light shining through. 

Looking up is a hopeful thing to do.

It is where the light is. Where it comes from. 

It is where our "help comes from".  ( I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from where my help comes from, my help comes from the Lord  Psalm 121:1-2)

Up is a place of hopeful vastness that ushers in peace, perspective and assurance!

Why?

Our omnipresent God, whose Spirit dwells within us, occupies the Heavens.

And it is He to Whom we "look up to".

He can take our sorrows and our times of challenge or confusion or misunderstanding or brokenness, and shed light upon the situation, in such a way, that we find redemption and beauty, potential clarity and understanding. Because of His love.

It does not mean that we will not still hurt, or carry burdens and concerns. 

It does not mean that we may have work to do, real life to live, hurts to mend, stuggles to navigate...

But it does mean that as we look up and look to our loving, caring God, that....

in doing so, as we trust in our all-mighty God, that things will have a way of "looking up"!


                                                



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