Lauren's Late Night Escapades

I've always been terribly obsessed with the moon. Back when I thought I was going to be a world-renowned novelist someday, I even wrote a book about a girl who was obsessed with the moon just to make me feel like I was normal.

It didn't work. 

Anyway, reminiscing aside, I am still very fascinated by the moon, and last night's full one was just begging to be photographed with my new camera. Waiting until I was sure it would be visible above our backyard jungle of trees, I tiptoed down the hallway with my camera and snuck outside. 

To my great disappointment, even though it was after midnight, the moon was still behind the trees. Sitting on the deck rail, I waited for awhile, hoping that it would emerge. 

When it finally did emerge, I began snapping photos, excited at the prospect of what they would look like. Until, of course, I noticed that they looked like this:

Needless to say, I was disappointed and decided to give up, as the time was nearing 1 o'clock in the morning. But then I realized something- I'm blind as a bat at night without my contact lenses! Even though the moon looked perfectly round and light and glorious to me, it was also very fuzzy. Perhaps there was something in my way that I couldn't see, blocking the path between the moon and I. 

After tiptoeing in the house to fetch my glasses and tiptoeing back out, I discovered that there were dozens of trees in the way! I just couldn't see them without looking at them through the proper lenses. 

How often do I look at situations and immediately try to figure them out on my own, getting discouraged and disgruntled when things don't make sense? All of the time. But God has this uncanny ability of knowing everything, and it's supposed to be my job to follow Him in everything, not try to figure it out on my own with my blind-as-a-bat night vision. 

And, just so you know, as soon as I could see clearly, I just moved to a different spot and found a clear window without any obstacles. Then I took this one: