Wouldn’t it be a breathtaking adventure to visit to the Valley of the Giants on the south coast of Western Australia where a Tree Top Walk is suspended 40 meters (over 132 feet) through the canopy of an ancient forest? Unless we are in the mountain heights or aloft, few of us will ever look down on big trees—let alone walk through the treetops. So it’s quite natural that in this painting, my perspective is clearly up, not down.
I’m a Midwesterner, not a mountain girl. It didn’t strike me as strange to paint over one hundred trees before realizing that not one looks down on the treetops.
How much of my perspective is ingrained and habitual? How much of yours is automatic? Lord, help me us come up higher and begin to view our circumstances and the world from Your Father God’s point of view.
The Lord told Moses . . . come up on Mt. Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. Exodus 34: 2 NIV
Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them. Mark 9: 2-3 NASB
Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:2 NKJV
