The other day my daughter Molly asked, “Who took down the Christmas tree?” When I turned and looked, sure enough — it was gone. In the busyness of the day, I had walked right past the place where our tree had been for weeks and hadn’t even noticed it wasn’t there. My youngest daughter Mikenna, on her own initiative, had saved us a ton of time by taking down all the Christmas decorations throughout the house. And even though I think of myself as a fairly observant individual, in this case I didn’t notice until it was pointed out to me.

Sometimes we don’t see the things that are right in front of us. We need someone to point them out to us.