This thought follows on from yesterday really, but comes due to some help from Darren of Alternative Hymnal fame in the formatting of yesterdays post.

I have been trying for a little while to format my posts so that the text would align around a picture – and you will see that darren gave me the little code that I needed to do that. No big deal you may think, as that is quite simple. Well, yes it is, but I had been researching and looking in books for a while and not been able to find anything to help me.

The problem was I was viewing the ‘problem’, ‘challenge’, ‘opportunity’ from completely the wrong angle. Here I am looking for some html code that will format my text. I wanted the text to go around the picture so it looked tidier. No matter where I looked I could find nothing.

It is now clear that I was looking in the wrong place as what I actually needed was code to format the picture. It never even occurred to me that I needed to look at the pic rather than my text. If it has, no doubt I would have sorted it very quickly – once I had the code from Darren it took all of mmmm 5 seconds. I shan’t tell you through sheer embarrassment how long I have pondered over HTML for Dummies or web pages out of sheer embarrassment.

As pilgrims on our journeys with God it strikes me that we can do all the research and think processes available to us, but is is important that we are looking for the right thing! To keep that open mind, to be creative and be able to view a situation from a totally different approach is a gift from God that we should give thought to.

Sadly, it seems to be true as well that there are lots of people out there looing for fulfilment, acceptance, love and security. How many hours are they spending looking in the wrong place?