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Perspective

PERSPECTIVE

PERSPECTIVE

Are you worried about anything today?  Sometimes we worry about decisions we have made in the past which we can do nothing about.  Sometimes our worries have to do with what other people think about us.  Sometimes we worry about our health, and most of the time what we worry about is not worth worrying about at all.

Sometimes when we change our point of view and get above our problems we tend to see things we could not see before about a situation we may be having difficulties with.  Perhaps the answer is in stopping to talk things over with a close friend or someone who has been through similar circumstances.  Maybe all it takes is to go for a long walk or to sleep on it.  The subconscious mind has an amazing way to work things through when we are sleeping, or change our focus.  You might also try praying about something you have no answers for and is troubling you.

Whatever the difficulty may be, sometimes it is a good idea to change your way of looking at things by getting above your problems in some way. Your perspective does have a way of changing the outcome of things.  Finally, forget about worrying, because after all, it really never accomplishes anything at all.

THE WORLD’S TALLEST HILL

Cavanal Hill  Poteau Oklahoma

Cavanal Hill – Poteau, Oklahoma “The World’s Tallest Hill”

I had an opportunity to travel this past weekend to travel to a little town called Poteau, Oklahoma which is situated about thirty miles west of Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Poteau is located in LeFlore County which is the only river that flows north in Oklahoma and is a french word that translates to “post” in English.

Poteau has a population of approximately 8600 and is in a valley just below Cavanal Hill.  Cavanal Hill is touted as the world’s tallest hill at 1999 feet or 609 meters.  Technically to be classified as a mountain, Cavanal Hill would only need to be 2000 feet high or 609 meters. Perhaps another foot might then make it the world’s smallest mountain!

Now compare that to Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Asia which is the world’s tallest mountain at 29,035 feet or 8850 meters high. That is fifteen times taller than Cavanal Hill.

I suppose that is how it is in life too.  No matter how great we think we are at something whether it is in sports, or business, or school or whatever it may be, there is always someone who will come along eventually who will be better.

 

“A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.”

 Proverbs 29:23 KJV – Bible