Keep Looking Up
I will lift my eyes to you,
to you whose throne is in heaven.
-Psalm 123:1 (NIV)
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There's a short poem I remember:
Two men looked out through prison bars.
One saw mud, the other saw stars.
My grandmother had a plaque in her home:
Keep Looking Up
That's still good advice.
Lift up your eyes to God.
See the swirling stars in the heavens.
Keep looking up.
Life is often about making choices.
We can look down at the mud.
Or we can lift up our eyes toward God
and see the swirling stars He has made.
I took a course in Life Planning.
One day we asked: What is an pessimist and an optimist?
I remember the optimist's definition of a pessimist:
A pessimist is a person with potential!
Look at your life today.
Look at the lives of others.
Look at our world.
Lift up your eyes
and see potential.
Ask God to show you what can happen
if you keep looking up today.
In 1983 Jaroslav J. Vajda wrote this beautiful line,
which we sometimes sing in our churches:
God of the sparrow
God of the whale
God of the swirling stars
How does the creature say Awe?
How does the creature say Praise?
Friend, ask yourself:
What will my day look like
if I keep looking up today?
Lift up your eyes to God in heaven!
See the swirling stars He made.
Keep looking up.
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