A fly and a bee can fly over the very same garden and still live in two completely different worlds. The fly, no matter how many flowers surround it, ends up landing on the garbage, on what’s rotten, on what smells bad. The bee, on the other hand, even when it passes right over that same trash heap, doesn’t stop there: it keeps flying until it finds the one flower in the place. Both have wings. Both see the same thing. But they’re looking for different things… and that’s why they find different things.
You surely know someone like that. The person who walks into a beautiful gathering and the first thing they notice is the one detail that went wrong. Who gets good news and immediately finds the “but.” Who, in the middle of family, work, and life, always lands on what hurts, on what’s missing, on what bothers them. They’re not a bad person. It’s just that, without realizing it, they learned to fly like a fly.
And you also know the other one. The person who, on that same gray day, finds a reason to smile. Who goes through the same hardship and, instead of staying in the complaint, tells you: “but look at all the good that happened too.” That person doesn’t live in an easier world. They live with a heart that learned to look for the flower.
And today I want to ask you an honest question, without judging you: when you wake up each morning, what does your heart go out looking for? The garbage or the flower? Because many times it’s not that life is going badly for us… it’s that we’ve trained our eyes to see first what weighs us down.
The Bible says it in a beautiful way. In Philippians 4:8 (NIV), Paul leaves us almost a map for the heart: “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Notice that he doesn’t ask us to ignore problems or pretend everything is perfect. God isn’t asking us to be blind. He’s asking us to choose where to land our heart.
Because in the end, what you look for is what you find. If you spend the day hunting for flaws, you’ll end up surrounded by flaws. But if you train your gaze to find God in the small things —in a hug, in a new sunrise, in a second chance— you’ll discover that, even in the middle of the trash heap, there’s always a flower waiting for you. Today you decide how you’re going to fly.
If you want, let’s pause and pray together: “Lord, forgive me for the times I only saw the bad. Teach me to look for your goodness in each day, to land on what’s good and not on what makes me bitter. Change my eyes and change my heart. Amen.”
And if you prayed from the heart, believe me: God is already working on this new way of seeing your life.
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