Looking Down

I have often used looking up as a metaphor for the spiritual life. Too often we just look down as in concerned too locally, focused on too little a view. The horizon of Gods gracious handiwork, the vastness of love that would evoke from me a purpose to serve and a joy do grand I must share it with others. This is the bigger vision, not being chicken Christians scratching in the little barnyard of our own concerns. But I’m wrong a bit. No surprise I know.

I almost fell off a cliff. Cause I wasn’t looking down. Lesson one. Metaphors have their limits. Lesson two. Both And. The detail steps we must take require attention to the minutes hours and days of the moment. Looking down we. don’t fall off a cliff. As a community we need people good at both.