Dag nab it, I’ll tell you.  I couldn’t solve the puzzle “Fast-Forward” on the Wheel of Fortune tonight.  I think I was standing WAY too close to the TV. You see, I was fixing dinner, and was rooting around in the cupboard below the counter…  I looked up and saw the blank squares.  But I couldn’t see all the parts which were filled in.   And then…. it happened….. …Mary beat me to the draw.  She got it first.

I was standing TOO dang close.  (Ohhhh… never admit defeat… always come up with a creative excuse.  Right?  Not right. …..  …But that is another story for another night.)

To continue with my first observation.

All of a sudden it hit me.  I really was standing too close.

Sometimes we are faced with puzzles in our lives.  Or problems, or situations, or things we have to figure out.  And sometimes, we are just standing TOO whip-nilly close to the situation.  We simple can’t see the bigger picture.

As the old saying goes, you can’t see the forest for the trees.  I get it now.

I have a few things in my life right now that I think I have to figure out.  Maybe I am standing too close.  Maybe I need to take a few steps back, and take in the big story, the entire show, the whole shebang.

Yet, I know sometimes it is important to get way up close and augment things too. Like when you are trying to fish a splinter out of the skin on your little finger, with a needle and a magnifying glass.

The trick of it… for all of us… …. is to know the difference.  Do w get way up close, or look at something from afar?

I guess it depends on the size of the matter in front of us.

If and when it happens ….. I wish we could all see it clearly, no matter  “the what” of it is.

Like on a clear day… you can see for ever.  And ever.  And ever.  And ever more.