Look at the Long View

So my mother has this wonderful policy of writing down a shorthand version of every Father's Blessing I get. At least, most of them. Having just moved, I was rummaging through some stacks of paper in an attempt to get them organized, and somehow, this typed recording of the most recent blessing I'd received, shortly before my dad left for Colorado, was on top. I'm not sure how it got there, because the rest were financial documents and the like, but there it was. I unfolded it and read it over.

About halfway down, my mother recorded the part where my father blessed me with wisdom, and the ability to 'look at the long view.' I stopped reading momentarily at that point, because I have been thinking to myself, over the last six months, that its quite amazing how much my view of things has changed. In a very short time, I've started to see things in a completely different way. I thought it was amazing how much I've changed in so little time, but seeing it on paper shocked me even more. Would I have ever recognized the hand of the Lord in inspiring my father to say those words if my mom had never written them down? Most certainly not! Thank you, mother! Seeing personal prophesy come true certainly helps strengthen one's belief!

And that phrase, look at the long view! I'm not sure if those words were my dad's, or my mom's interpretation of them, but how true they are! That very thing is the difficulty the world has. With all the data analysis, social justice and political backbiting, its easy to find multiple reasonable explanations for things... but if you have the wisdom and experience to extrapolate far into the future, only one path becomes rational. And, of course, no one alive can possibly have the experience to truly see that perspective. Getting even a glimpse of it is truly amazing.