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

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

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. So I said, okay, and 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 and I noticed she was getting a little more

irritated and she was going through the pictures more quickly. And I was like, okay, 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. And 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 speck on the picture.

And 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. You see, that bush was a speck on the picture.

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