Change of Perspective

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Yesterday I addressed the issue of drought, explaining that we go though periods of drought in our lives.  Photographers also refer to times of drought. There are periods when photographers struggle with inspiration.

The advise that I've often heard given to photographers when experiencing this lack of inspiration is to change their perspective. Start shooting pictures in black and white if you usually shoot in color, or in color if you usually shoot in black and white.

I shoot in color, so for me it means taking some old pictures and changing my perspective by converting them to black and white.

This change of perspective is what Jesus calls for in the Sermon on the Mount.

"And why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying to your friend, 'Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,' when you can't see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye." Matthew 7:3-5 New Living Translation

Maybe the change of perspective we need is to stop looking at the speck of dirt in someone else's eye and focus on the reality that there's something stuck in our own eye. Maybe the reason we feel like we're in a rut is because we keep focusing on another person's imperfections and ignore the reality of our own.

The tweezers we need to remove our log is held in the hand of the One who died for you. When I was a child I didn't know how to remove a sliver from my hand, but my mom did. She held both the tweezers and my hand and removed the sliver. With the tweezers of forgiveness, God holds our head and he removes that plank that skews our vision.

When our perspective is changed we see that it is not our job to remove the speck from another person's eye. Our calling is to lead them to the One who will hold their head and remove their speck.

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