When I begin to stop asking the why question and asking what are you doing, it got my focus off of myself and off of me and my circumstances in a way and said, okay, God, you've got a plan and it's not mine.

What if you lived with excitement over what God is up to next? Would you live differently? What if no matter what life through it you, you saw it all through the lens of hope, optimism and even trust in God?

Well, today, author James Barnett will reveal his secret to move you from a life of warian fear to a life full of anticipation for what God is doing. He's going to give you three little words that can make a huge difference on how you see your life.

So look up 413ers, blue skies are in your future. Welcome to the 413 podcast where practical encouragement and biblical wisdom set you up to live the I can life because you can do all things through Christ to strengthen you. Now would you welcome your host, my soul, sister?

My buddy Jennifer Rob. Hey, our people dinner for off child here just to help you be and do more than you feel capable of as you live the I can life of Philippians 413 and today's conversation is all about blue skies.

I love blue skies. Blue skies smiling at me. Oh, yeah, nothing but blue skies. Do I see something like that? That's about all I know.

I love it that you just belted out in song. Uh huh. That that sparks some joy in my ears. That does sparks enjoy Marie Congo. We are sparking joy in the closet.

Seriously, though, we are talking today with James Barnett. And this is a really good conversation because it's all about perspective.

And I remember my daddy used to tell this story Casey. Um, you know, my daddy was a pastor. If y'all don't know him, he went to heaven several years ago.

But my dad always had preacher stories, right? Okay. Well, this was one of them that for years as a little girl, I believed he really knew this person because he made it into a real person.

But it was about this guy who was in the hospital and he was in a double room, you know, shared a room with somebody. And he was on the one side that was furthest from the door.

And then this other gentleman who happened to be very grouchy was near the door. And there was, of course, the curtain that separated them.

So the grouchy guy near the door was always complaining about everything.

The one on the opposite side of the room, he was always trying to encourage him. And so one of the ways he did it is he would describe what he could see out of this window and how it was a pretty day.

And he could, he would describe the birds flying. He would describe the sun shining. He would describe how the trees were blown by the wind. And you know, just would always give him this great perspective out the window.

So this gentleman, he, he finally passed away. And when he did grouchy roommate guy says to the orderly, hey, please move me over to that side of the room.

Got him over to that side of the room. The guy got settled in his bed. And so he's like, he was in a lot of pain. So it took him a little while to finally get mobile enough to turn toward the wall where the window was. And when he did, he realized there was not a window there.

There had never been a window there. It was all about this guy's perspective. And so he chose to create this beautiful perspective when he was looking at just a dingy white wall.

It was about his perspective and he saw beyond it. So I think that's a great picture of what James is talking about today.

Having the ability to see beyond your circumstances, see the blue skies.

You know, having sunshine on a cloudy day being a positive peat instead of a negative Nancy.

A to the mid no offense to the Nancy's listening right now.

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