My youngest daughter gave me a lesson on perspective yesterday morning. As I was enjoying my morning coffee before taking her to a marching band practice for a Memorial Day parade, she started screaming about a giant spider.

I came running with a fly swatter and wasp spray, picturing some of the spiders I saw in Indonesia, and asked her where it was. She proceeded to point to a spider about half the size of a daddy long legs.

I finally got an opportunity to give her some side eye as I squished the spider with a piece of toilet paper and asked her what she thought a small spider was.

She still stands by her original claim that it was a huge spider. But in my life experience, a huge spider is one that crunches under your boot, and if you miss it on the first attempt, it’s bite could potentially require an ER trip.

As I tried to decide whether to laugh or sigh at my daughter, I wondered what ‘small spiders’ in my life I treat as ‘huge spiders.’ And I prayed that, as I get ready for helping with our church’s VBS, I can keep perspective on all the little details that will creep up, just like my daughter’s spider.

2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.