When We Can't See The Forest For The Trees
When you look at this photo, what do you see? Many will, at first glance, see a tree. More specifically, the single large tree at the forefront of the photo. It's there. It's clear. It's easy to see. However, if you continue to look closely, you'll notice that there's much more. Not only are there other trees a little further back, but a whole hillside sitting along a body of water, smaller branches poking out of the water on the far side, trees in the distance and a beautiful blue sky, reflection in the stillness...there's really so much more! This same limited vision can and does show up in our everyday lives. We get entangled in the fusion and enmeshment of our relationships and can be (very naturally and predictably) blinded to the bigger picture. It can be a difficult thing to zoom out of our lives, shift our lens, consider our circumstances, and observe what bigger process is really taking place in the interactions between ourselves and others. Not good or...