Flying Higher: Reading the Bible from Altitude
Discovering the Wisdom in Zooming Out and Zooming In on Scripture
Advent has a way of pulling us upward, out of the noise and seeing things for what they truly are. Today, I’m thinking about what we notice when we read the Bible from above, rather than from the ground.
Most days, that’s where I’m most at home. I am tracing themes, watching the sweep of the narrative, and seeing how a strange passage in one corner of Scripture echoes something whispered centuries earlier.
Of course, sometimes, I have to fly low.
I get focused on one verse. One phrase. One strange detail.
I sit with it until it speaks.
Both ways of reading the Bible matter. The trick is knowing when to climb and when to swoop.
The truth is, many of us spend most of our lives at low altitude. We pick apart words, analyse phrases, and hover over individual verses, but we rarely step back far enough to see the shape of the whole thing.
That’s a shame, because when you only fly low, you risk missing the story you’re actually inside.
Advent is a perfect time for gaining height.
This season has always been about stepping back, looking beyond the immediate, and remembering the story God tells over centuries, not seconds.
So, let’s take a small flight together.