Perspective

Nicole often tells me i have some serious issues.....and maybe she's right!  (See attached picture)  So the other day i was thinking to myself, Hunter (our dog) really likes his kennel, like to the point where sometimes he doesn't even want to hang out with us so i thought as a good Dad, i would join him for a stay in his world.  The room looked a lot bigger from his kennel and he was ticked i was in there...i also learned he is d..i..r..t..y and needs to start cleaning his own dang room or wiping his own feet off from coming inside!  Fast forward to our staff meeting we're having at one staff members houses (LC gotta love it)!  One staff member makes comment to other staff member, "he's a new christian, he doesn't know some stuff is cliche, as long as its spiritual its all alright"  Put that in the back of your head and chew on it, one more to come...So im driving home in my wife's car which is an odd experience for me because its a jetta and guys tend to look at me funny when i drive it, probably not but im "self aware" if it ever were to happen (does that make any sense?)!  Long story short, i drive a lifted jeep, she drives a lowered jetta...if you ever want to feel like your butt is dragging the ground make that leap.  On to the point here-i make the turn towards our neighborhood knowing its the right turn as soon as i make it i immediately panic thinking i've taken the wrong turn.  It takes three consistent road signs to tell me im heading in the right direction before i start to believe anything.  Needless to say the rest of the short drive i had left was one that was continually focused on making sure i was heading in the right direction.  Her car had given me this totally different perspective on the things around me!  One thing i've learned is that we need to constantly be evaluating things around us, trying to gain a new perspective in order to ensure that things are going in the best possible direction (or for some, the right direction and others...a direction at all).  Whether it be after years of having my dog and the same kennel realizing how dirty it is, or how much room he really has, or how safe it feels i learned something...next time he goes in his kennel i understand why.  Whether its driving and realizing things you never realized before, needing to check the signs around you to make sure your heading in the right direction, re-directing our focus on what we really need to be focusing on or just that once-in-awhile feeling of confirmation that we are heading where we need to head.  Whether its that new christian that hasn't settled into american christian culture that still finds anything spiritual more captivating than not, the hunger that resides in that.  The new christian that walks into our ministry and sees volunteers, staff, and other attenders less than captivating, less than spiritual what's their perspective?  I'm constantly evaluating my christian ideals and perspective, checking to make sure first im heading in a direction and then making sure its the right one.  And finally im always checking to make sure my place is all cleaned up (you make the connection), there's no dirt hiding anywhere and that there's a place that's safe and comfortable for me to relax and jump into the arms of a God who cares!  How long has it been since you just checked where you're perspective is at?