Perspective central

Once in a while we get some chances to do things we never dreamed of
and once in a while we wave at them as they pass by.
But every now and then we catch them in their full sway knowing that that and there is what and where the lord wants us to catch and be. Oh so shitty to be a chicken with no head, the other day Dave and I were visiting the location of one of our social projects that we are currently changing locations when this lady from the local slum came by to ask if the services that our institute offered were charged or free and what was the registration process, we told her that the institute was changing locations and was closed, she just proceeded to walk on her way and said "humph, nothing makes any progress around these parts." i was a little shocked at her complacent, lethargic and defeatist perspective on life "around these parts" and told her that if she only changed her perspective a little bit and tried a tad things might not look so gray.
She just looked at me dead in the eye and said "You wanna know something, I've run around all my life and I've worked myself to the bone and do you know where that got me, nowhere! All that gave me was this sickness... (dont know what it was) So now, I don't do anything any more and I certainly don't rush to do anything rushing and working never got me anywhere." I got a little perturbed about what she was saying, but I certainly know what I have to do when I get around to feeling like I'm running around on empty with no perspective. I'm a bit like that chicken with no head and He just reminded me about what this lady had said and told me that if I wanted to end up like her i had to just keep running on my own fuel instead of going to him and my team coaches to get the big picture and perspective enough to really strive for something. Without vision the people parish. I saw that I really need to keep going to the lord and his word striving to catch and go along with the flow of his spirit and the TEAM SPIRIT wherever I am (which is something that I have been lacking recently) in whatever job I've dedicated myself to, because without that vision, I will parish.