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The other day I was sitting with my friend Melanie and as she was telling me about her day, she casually said that she “zoomed out.”
I had never heard this term before but I really liked the concept and the visual it placed in my head.
The overhead crane shot that starts on the top of my head and whatever myopic thing I’m focusing on in the moment and pulling back and showing more context for what’s going on around me.
The many amazing things that are going on that I get to be a part of.
Zooming out actually helps me be more present. I think often we think not being present means our minds are wandering elsewhere, but often we can not be present by being so focused on the singular task at hand that we forget to be a part of what is going on around us.
Zooming out is an intentional act of being present and it causes immediate gratitude.
So if I were to zoom out right now from my couch writing this, I’d hear the birds beginning to chirp as the sun rises. And I’d take note of the fact that I have an amazing wife who is still sleeping and will soon wake up and feed our child. Then go and teach a 3 hour lecture on Genesis. And I’d take in the fact that I’m in our home on a YWAM base that is doing amazing work and transforming peoples lives all over the world, and that I’m living on an island in the middle of the Pacific that is absolutely beautiful. Come on, you can’t help but get thankful when you zoom out!
Comment and share with us your zoomed out view right now
DO IT I dare you.
Have an awesome day.
