Day 13: The Moon

The sliver of moon that I saw tonight was just a piece of the bigger picture.  Obviously we all know that the whole moon is still there even when it is out-shined by part of itself, but it didn't really occur to me how symbolic that was until tonight when I pulled this photo off my camera.  With the naked eye, this looked like a tiny piece of moon, but on a long exposure it pulls out the whole thing and makes the sliver look blurry and unimpressive.

That's how life is too.  We get so caught up in the moment that we forget to step back every once in a while, widen our gaze, and look at the whole thing...

Gain a little perspective.

Once we do, we'll realize that it's not just the tiny sliver of the moon that we should be looking at, but the entire orb, the stars, the satellites, the trees, and the sky.  And suddenly what was just a bright spot in our vision becomes a beautiful landscape full of potential and life!