I've often been perplexed by this quote and what it actually means. It's an oft used quote in a variety of contexts...songs, poems, prose, books,etc. One of my favorite John Denver songs-"Boy From the Country" uses it as the boy who doesn't want to see the forest through the trees. In looking at the overall picture we often miss the details that make up that big picture. And so too in life, we're often bogged down by the mundane, the idiosyncratic and thus our lives become an anomaly of mediocrity. We've forgotten the Higher Power and the place that it has in our lives. How many times have I failed to look for the detail of a decision or missed the importance of an imperfection and dismissed it as trivia. Let's strive not to be impeded by the lack of detail but rather the significance of totality.
Hey, it's going to be a White Christmas this year.
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