“I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the Lord says.” Habakkuk 2:1

Everyone needs a watchtower. You need a place to go where you can get out of your routine. It doesn’t have to be far away. It might be as close as your closet. But it needs to be someplace where you get good reception. One of my watchtowers is the observation gallery at the National Cathedral. The 360-degree panoramic view of the nation’s capital gives me fresh perspective. It also helps me dream God-sized dreams. Another one of my watchtowers is the rooftop of Ebenezers. I hear God’s voice more clearly up there.

Where do you go to get perspective? What places help you dream bigger dreams? Where do you go to hear the voice of God more clearly?

Thomas Edison sat in his thinking chair with a metal ball bearing in each palm. Henry David Thoreau skipped stones on Walden Pond. Alexander Graham Bell had a “dreaming place” in a hollow of trees overlooking the Grand River.