The nature of circumstances are all in your perspective. Things are neither good or bad, but what thinking makes them so. You can be in what you feel is a place of lack (lack of answers, lack of necessities, or lack of the things you want) and a shift in perspective can change everything.
My husband David Kuhns joins me in this video to talk about our experience picking blackberries. We thought we’d found all the ripe wild blackberries there were, but when we came at the bushes from down below and looked up, we found more. And when we looked at them in a different light, we found even more.
It’s kind of funny, because after I watched the video we’d recorded, I noticed we talk about how we found “a bunch” more blackberries. Then, we hold up this little container that’s half full. When we were picking, it felt like we found a lot of blackberries. When you’re foraging… “a lot” is relative. It’s all in your perspective.
When you’re going through a time of lack, you’re more likely to fall to your knees, looking up for answers. When you do, and you find the peace or answers you seek, you tend to be a lot more thankful for those answers. Someone else may look at what you found, or hear about what you found, and say, “That’s not much.” But it sure meant a lot to you in your moment of need!