Can you believe these two photos were taken within a minute of each other?
This year has been extra challenging gardening-wise. Usually I have great success with just about anything I plant... except zucchini. But since everyone ELSE seems to have great success with zucchini, I can get as many of those as I want.
Part of my “WTH is going on with my garden this year?” has been wondering what happened to all the sunflower seeds I planted. Out of ALL those seeds, only two came up, and so far only one has bloomed.
You’re looking at the lucky winner.
Of course, I had to commemorate the moment with a picture.
So there I was yesterday, while the clouds were playing patti cake in the sky and teasing me with rain that never actually came, trying to get a good picture of my one beautiful sunflower.
I stood in one spot and took picture after picture because, from where I was standing, the sunflower looked GREAT.
But every picture looked like the first one.
I kept trying. Different picture. Same spot. Same problem.
Finally, I moved over about two steps and changed the angle just a little bit.
And there she was.
Almost as pretty in the picture as she is in real life.
(I couldn’t get the clouds to cooperate and move out of the way so I could have that beautiful blue-sky background... but apparently there are limits to what changing your perspective can accomplish.)
And it got me thinking...
How often do we do exactly the same thing in our lives?
We’re trying to figure something out. We’re worried about something. We want an answer. So we keep looking at the situation from the same place, pushing in the direction we think is best and essentially “taking the picture from the exact same spot” over and over again.
And we wonder why we still can’t see clearly.
Sometimes we don’t need to try harder.
Sometimes we just need to move two steps over.
A slightly different perspective can make something that seemed confusing suddenly become clear as a bell.
And then it hit me...
That’s a lot of what I do during an Intuitive Reading.
I get to “look in” from a different perspective. I’m not standing in the middle of the situation with all the emotions, history, worries and what-ifs surrounding it.
And many times, when I share what I “see,” something that has been concerning or confusing my client suddenly looks very different to them.
The situation itself may not have changed at all… yet.
They’re just seeing it from a different angle.
It’s amazing how sometimes all it takes is someone else “looking in” to help us see what was there all along.