A few weeks ago, at Kim and my monthly marriage group—what we call Supper Club—I handed out small magnifying glasses.
We talked about how what we magnify, we glorify.
If we magnify the negative things in our relationship, guess what? That’s what we’ll focus on. And just like a magnifying glass, it makes those things appear bigger than they actually are.
But if we magnify the positive, we make that bigger—and that creates bigger, more positive results.
I gave out the magnifying glasses because I wanted each of us to have a simple reminder: we get to choose what we put the magnifier up to. We get to choose what we make bigger.
And this doesn’t just apply to our relationships.
We magnify so many things in life—and if we’re honest, we tend to magnify the negative far more than the positive.
We magnify the fear.
We magnify the anxiety.
We magnify the unknown.
We magnify the uncertainty.
We magnify the negative thoughts.
We may not intend to, but what we magnify, we glorify.
We’re making bigger the very things we don’t want in our lives—simply because we keep magnifying them.
My challenge to each of us isn’t necessarily to start by magnifying the positive… but to first stop leaving the magnifying glass on the negative for so long.
What happens when you leave a magnifying glass sitting in the sun on one spot?
It heats up… and eventually, it can catch fire.
So remove the magnifying glass from the negative. Look at it for what it is—without making it bigger than it actually is.
What is heating up in your life right now because you’ve left the magnifying glass on it too long?
What would happen if you pulled it away and saw it for what it really is?
What we magnify, we glorify.