When we spend too much time looking at our feet, we become focused on our personal paths and the details of our lives. Concentrating on our to do lists, our plans, or our challenges can result in our forgetting that God is Lord.
We each have a story. A story of neglect, of anger, of harsh environments. Even for those that “grew up in the church”, there are seasons where we’ve walked through the desert without a word from God, and of course those times when, as Scripture references, “we walk through the valley of the shadow of death”.