Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Sunday.

One late afternoon.

An amazing sight.

Buildings, beautiful sky and cloud formations, smokey horizons, and one clear view of a mountain!

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It was only when we moved to Jakarta as a family, and started living in an apartment – rather high up above the ground – that I was ‘introduced’ to daily wonders of God’s creation!

I never knew that there’s such a stunning view in Jakarta.

I mean, a beautiful mountain view? From Jakarta?

I’ve always lived ‘on the ground’, in houses.

Even our unit back in Singapore is at a low level.

It was only when we moved to Jakarta as a family last year, and started living in an apartment – rather high up above the ground – that I was ‘introduced’ to daily wonders of God’s creation!

(which explains why I’ve been taking quite a lot of ‘sky shots’ from my balcony, and sharing them on my Instagram and Facebook =)

[This is what I often see from our balcony, and thanks to my hubby who secretly took this shot, you can see what I often do there too during sunsets =) ]  

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From the ground up, we tend to see Jakarta as a crowded and busy city of traffic jams, mess, pollution, and buildings.

BUT, when we are on higher ground, those ‘details’ we tend to focus our attention to when we’re on the ground somehow become ‘insignificant’.

They become so little. Seemingly non-existent to the eyes, even.

And instead, when we’re so high up, we get to see a totally different kind of view!

We get to see the overall bigger picture of everything.

A bird’s eye view.

We even get to see beautiful sights so far away from us, views that usually are ‘hidden’ behind the buildings that surround us day to day.

[Shot taken by Hubby, using his telephoto lens and DSLR]

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… from high above, God sees everything so differently. HE sees the bigger picture of everything. HE sees what we can’t see because ‘we are on the ground’. 

You know what.

As I immersed myself in the beauty of what I saw earlier today, a thought crossed my mind.

I am like the very people who are on the ground.

I tend to focus my time and energy on the details (problems, daily issues at work or at home) that surround me every day.

And often, I’m bogged down, drowned, in them.

But, from high above, God sees everything so differently.

HE sees the bigger picture of everything.

God sees what WE cannot see, because ‘we are on the ground’ and HE’s way up there.

HE is the Creator of all things and that’s why we can rely upon Him and put our hope and trust in Him, as we live day to day ‘on the ground’.

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One reason to be in awe and thankful to our almighty God today.

And I’m learning, to be thankful everyday.

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PS: We’re moving out to another apartment next week, and I think I’ll be seeing sunrises there, instead of sunsets. I’ll miss my daily beautiful sunsets and skyline, but … at the same time, I’m so looking forward to fresh morning sights from our new home real soon too! =)