PERSPECTIVE
Suppose a little boy looks through the knothole of a fence to see a parade. If he sees a clown pass by, he’s tickled. If he sees a lion, he’s afraid. If there’s a space in between, he may think the parade’s over. If someone blocks his view, he may think there’s no parade at all. But suppose a man picks him up. He puts him on his shoulders above the line of the fence. Then he can see a good part of the parade all at once, and he gets the idea! Indeed, if he were higher up, he might see the entire parade in one view. “Now we see through the knothole,” — many of us. All we can see at one moment is that our checkbook is empty, or our wife is sick, and we get thoroughly discouraged. Anne Ortland, Up With Worship
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