{"id":4980,"date":"2011-03-11T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2011-03-11T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T23:46:17","slug":"narrow-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/narrow-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Narrow Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tarns Hows, Lake Cumbria, UK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n

When I used the picture you see here in the header section of this blog, it seemed like such a shame to crop it down to fit the format. The expanse of the photograph and the beauty of the scene is diminished when most of it is hacked out. Obviously.<\/p>\n

I felt I had to give this scene of Cumbria Lake full exposure. So, here you are.<\/p>\n

And…<\/em><\/p>\n

This limited view concept makes sense on a larger scale too. Our default view is only a partial view. <\/strong>How easy it is to forget that. <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>We don’t know much about what lies off our perspective. We only know (or think we know), what we can visualize and grasp. Even just that bit may be mysterious or confusing.<\/p>\n

An ugly scene or situation is only seen, in part. Our past is hindsight, at best, and our future is unknown. Unseen. What we have before us is a mere strip of the whole picture. The Big Picture.<\/p>\n

I believe the justice and goodness of God will one day bring all things into better view. If we judge Reality by only what we’ve experienced, and seen first hand, we settle for just a small strip, and not the panorama. the panorama awaits. Hang on. It gets better.<\/p>\n

Have you realized the smallness of your vantage point?
\nWhat things, in your circumstances or life, are likely much bigger than can be seen right now? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Getting stuck in the small strip of scenery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[13,4477,4478,989,20,1400,1472,32,4473,1828,4479,3837,2016,45,55,2448,2536,58,2977,3195,78,79,85,4474,3542,4475,4476,4480,3658,90,3751],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-christianity","tag-circumstances","tag-cumbria","tag-disaster","tag-discernment","tag-future","tag-god","tag-gods-will","tag-hindsight","tag-japan","tag-lake","tag-landscape","tag-life","tag-life-as-prayer","tag-nature","tag-outlook","tag-perspective","tag-photography","tag-scenery","tag-spiritual-formation","tag-stress","tag-suffering","tag-theology","tag-tsunami","tag-uk","tag-unseen","tag-vantage-point","tag-view","tag-weather","tag-worldviews","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}