Fishing For Blessings

The creek that runs through Jone's Hole.

A while back I went on a little trip to a creek in Jone's Hole. There is a beautiful little stream running between two enormous steep mountains—one solid red rock and the other steep gray dirt. Dillon and Chrystal were with me. While Chrystal and I explored and took pictures, Dillon did some fly fishing. Some very big rainbow trout swim this stream and they are quite the challenge to catch.

As we were walking along the stream, Dillon kept an eye out for good fishing holes. Every now and then he would get excited and try to point out a school of fish swimming beneath the shallow waters. Try as I might, I could not see them. He realized that he had sunglasses with a polarized lenses which cut the glair on top of the water so he could see beneath the water. He handed me his glasses, and sure enough, there were the fish—right there before my eyes.

This experience came to my mind today while pondering life. I realized that so often we live our lives in the same way—we have blessings right before our eyes and we are totally blind to them. We search and search for other answers to our wants and desires not realizing that our prayers have already been answered. We are certain that there must be more—something more profound. Most often we don't realize that the sweet and simple answers are staring us in the face just out of view because we are focused elsewhere.

We are the ones who bring chaos to our lives as we frantically look for happiness or peace or whatever else that we think we want. God is not a God of chaos. He knows what blessings will be most effective in our individual lives yet we often do not grasp it—we don't put the glasses on that allow us to see beneath the chaos that we have created in order to see how blessed that we already are in our lives. We may begin pushing away those people or situations that will actually bring the most peace, the most happiness, or the most blessings.

It's something to think about, isn't it?