Fog Forms Focus

Fog is a crazy thing. A cloud on the ground. Without it, there's clarity. With it, haze, mist, and obscurity.

Fog isn't inherently bad, it just imposes focus. Take driving for instance. With fog you can only see so far. If it's really thick fog then sometimes you can only see a few yards or feet. Fog demands focus. You slow. You search. You pan. You focus. You orient how you drive to accommodate the fog. You focus on what you can see.

Truthfully, fog imposes focus whether we want it or not. The times fog becomes a frustrating obstacle is when we long for the horizon, long for clarity and fog just won't allow us to see. Why? Because it's demanding and imposing focus on what's happening now.

Thinking on my life, I remember seasons and moments of fog. I used to become frustrated by fog in my life (I guess I still do at times) but what I'm discovering is that fog forms focus in our lives and I praise God for that.