Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

Thank you, Lord. How are you? How many of you guys know that sometimes the smallest thing

can just irritate you? Things that really don't matter in the long run. I was with a

girlfriend of mine several years ago and she was showing me her vacation photos. I hate to date

this, but it's when we used to go get them at Walgreens. She said, I just picked up my vacation photos.

Let's look at them. I said, okay, so we began to look at this beautiful pictures of blue skies,

sandy beaches, all these cute little shops at the port. Just so much fun. We're looking. I noticed

she was getting a little more irritated and she was going through the pictures more quickly.

I was like, okay, you know, I was going to kind of really check them out and talk about it.

Then all of a sudden I noticed she began to say, I look terrible in that picture.

I don't like that picture. I'm not wearing that outfit again. It doesn't photograph well.

As she began to pick herself apart in these pictures, see, I went from enjoying her vacation

to looking at something about herself that I couldn't even see. You see, sometimes we forget the

big picture. We forget to look at the blue skies, the sandy beaches, the smiling faces,

our children, because we see that spec on the picture. That's all we focus on. You see,

her memory all of a sudden became negative. Think about Adam and Eve. They were in a beautiful

garden, lush green garden. They had fruit everywhere. They could eat all they want, never gained

any weight. No laundry. They were in. This amazing God-given garden.

And one day Eve got her eye on a single bush, a single bush in the garden.

The only bush she was asked not to touch. And that day, that bush became the biggest thing

that she saw. In fact, that bush was so big, it distorted the whole view of the garden.

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