Missing Something

Missing Something
Originally uploaded by throughmylenses.

I took this photo the day after Thanksgiving. That night I was editing the photos I took and noticed something. Something about this photo was off. It was missing something. As I looked at it I kept thinking to myself "what is it missing?" And then it hit me, it is missing people. It needs to have a person or two in the picture, up agianst the wall.

Later this got me thinking. While I was taking the picture I couldn't see that it needed something more. I just saw it and took it. And then I thought about how when we go through life we sometimes can't see what we need. Sometimes we think we need something and it actually turns out being something bad for us. Or we think we need it and later we realize that it was better that we didn't get what we wanted.

Even Jesus thought he knew what was best for him, but the difference for Jesus is he let God make the choice about what was good. He asked God the Father to "Take this cup from me. But not my will be done, yours Father." (Jon's version, it gets the point across). Jesus was smart enough to know that God could see the best in the end. We need to start looking at life more like that. We need to start looking at life knowing that God can see the missing people in the picture. He knows where we will be in 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years, even 40 years. Start trusting that God knows whats best for us. I say "us" because I too am on this journey of discovery. Each day we can pray that God will teach us how to pray and what to pray for. He knows what we really need.