Perspectives

This is kind of a random post but I just feel like I should get a few things down on "paper" before I forget them. I just attended my married institute class that I have once a week. The topic was "eternal perspectives" and I really enjoyed the lesson. The teacher started the class by showing a video clip with three white shirted people and three black shirted people. Watch it here before you read on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2BJC12uXQ . For those who don't want to watch it, then I'll explain it. They had balls and were going to pass them and we were supposed to watch the white shirted people and count how many times they passed the ball to eachother. I got really excited and was very attentive as I successfully counted the passes. There were 17 I was sure. Then the teacher asked if anyone noticed something odd during the video clip. I hadn't. He instructed us to watch again, without counting the passes. As I watched the WHOLE view of the clip, not jsut the white shirted passes, I noticed that in the middle of the clip a big hairy gorrilla walked across the video and even did a little dance in the middle of it, then walked off. I hadn't even noticed it the first time!!! You'd think that it'd be impossible to miss a BIG, HAIRY gorrilla!! But no, I missed it and felt kind of dumb afterward. The point: Sometimes, we get so caught up with one aspect of something and miss the whole picture, even if it's staring us in the face. It was a sweet reminder of how I can change my perspective in my marriage (and my whole life) to make things be a little bit more pleasant and let go of the little things that bother me. I have really tried this lately and things that would usually cause a stir have actually smoothed over quite nicely and I've learned more about what a wonderful husband I have. I'm grateful for this lesson and I hope that others can use the reminder as well. There is a reason and a season for everything and all we need to do is just have faith that Heavenly Father knows what's up!