UGA Wesley

It is so easy for us to literally take a break from everything when we have holidays and time off from school. Mindless activities often fill our days and weeks can even go by without the slightest idea of how we have spent our time. While we want to relax and rest during the break, we don't want to just become couch potatoes and waste away the three weeks.

Retreats, breaks, and holidays are great times to gain perspective in life. We need to gain perspective (God's perspective) on singleness, finances, being stressed out, family situations, and many other things.

When we take a step back from our regular routines we are able to see things more clearly and our view of everyday life can be interrupted with new ideas, thoughts, and outlooks.

Perspective is the ability to see things in right relationship. It is a specific view point in judging and understanding events especially in regards to how things relate to one another. Gaining perspective is when we look at our lives from the bigger picture. We pull ourselves back from the entrenched ways we live our lives and see our lives from height, from the bird's eye view.

However, this won't happen by itself. We need to be purposeful and take the time and opportunities we have in our lives to gain perspective. During the holidays we can gain perspective because there is time to view our lives from different angles. Being away from Athens will place us in many different environments where we can view our lives and how it relates to others' lives.

Challenge: Take time today to ask God for His perspective on your life. Ask Him to give you fresh perspective and to show you the bigger picture, especially on the things that worry you. Stress and worry are good indicators of what we need fresh perspective on.

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Scripture: Hebrews 12:2