Today I am all caught up in my head. Swirling about my mind are problems too big for me to handle, stressors too burdensome for me to shoulder. As someone who typically wears her heart on her sleeve, I often take on others’ woes and count them as my own. And then there are the woes that do belong to me; they aren’t really deep or serious, and yet I am looking at them that way today.

I love this photo because, somehow, the beauty of the sun and clouds, the barely-there kite way up high reminds me to look up (to God for his provisions and saving grace) and out (to the world to see who I might serve). It’s so easy to get caught up in myself, to navel-gaze until I can no longer see hope and light. The solution? Look up, look out.

Why are you so downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God…

(Psalm 42:5,7-8)