It's fun to look at old pictures of the town you grew up in or the town you live in now (maybe it's the same for you!) I wish there was a way to go back and drive through your town or watch a video of that town from ten or twenty or however many years ago. You would be going, "Oh, I remember that store." or "I had forgotten how that looked."
What you notice is how much everything has changed so much in the last however many years. Even in the last five or ten years, the difference is striking. It pretty astounding when you view it like that, but when you're in the middle of the transformation, you don't tend to notice it, other than a few things here or there that change or get updated or improved.
I think that's the way it is with our spiritual lives. When you're in the middle of the transformation it seems like things aren't changing very quickly, but when you step back and view it from a distance, the transformation is substantial.
It's the little changes day by day that make the biggest difference.
So what little change are you going to work on today?
(pictured above: Small town Pine City in the 1940s looking south from 3rd Ave. One of the round stained glass windows from the old court house (white building on the right) is hanging in the public library window now. Pletschel’s is currently Nicoll’s Café.)
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