As I attended a Church while on vacation during Thanksgiving time, I noticed something as I looked out at the tree through the window in front of me. The Church was an older building with individual window panes in each window. Some of the panes were the old type that were wavy making things look blurry and distorted. Others were the newer panes that made everything look crystal clear.

As I looked out the window in front of me, the left pane was the old type and the right one was the new type. The tree beyond the window looked different depending on which pane I looked through.

The old pane made the tree look blurry. The trunk was curvy and the branches were thick and disjointed. In the newer pane, the tree was tall and straight. The branches weren’t nearly as big and I could see the fine details of each of the smaller twigs coming off the larger limbs.

1 Corinthians 13:12 reminds us that, "Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." (NIV)

The older pane was the poor reflection that I see of this life. Things are often bigger then what they truly are. The road I travel often looks curvy and disjointed with the way blurry.

The newer pane reminds me that there is One who sees everything crystal clear. The Lord knows the road I travel and sees even the tiniest detail of the journey.

So, I need to know that the One who knows me the best and loves me the most has everything under control even though to me things look not so great and blurry.

For Jeremiah 29:11 reminds us, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (NIV)

As the hymn says, "Trust and obey for there is no other way." This month, know without a shadow of a doubt that the God who sees your path crystal clear is taking care of you. Trust and obey!