Somewhere (well, here, but I think also elsewhere that I can't find now), I've written on the danger of focusing our attention too much on our circumstances to the exclusion of spending time with, praising and worshiping God. The danger is that when we hold any item too close to our "eyes" it encompasses our full field of view and obliterates proper perspective. Things take their proper scale in our perspective only when we view them against the larger backdrop of our relationship with God, who loves us and is far greater than any set of circumstances in our lives.
(I have a good friend who is learning the applicability of this lesson to even the most extreme of circumstances.)
It occurs to me that the same thing is true of focusing our attention on the lack of a thing. Even though, in a sense, there isn't a "thing" there to block our view, yet this lack is itself a circumstance like any other, which can consume our attention and derail the peace we should find in God.
Our blessings are abundant, and we can miss them utterly by letting ourselves get wrapped up in our lack, our concern, our needs, outside of the context of the loving God who never fails to provide for all we truly need.
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