THE VIEW FROM ABOVE

Thousands of cars drive by the dock yards on the busy street next to our HCMC apartment building. But because of buildings that line the street, none of them see what we see. We have "the view from above" (19 storeys above). What we have noticed intrigues us.
Since moving into this apartment on December 1st, Jan and I have enjoyed our view of the busty Saigon River and the extensive dockyards near us. I have often spent 5 or 10 minutes watching a ship loading or unloading. Occasionally I have looked at the right time to see a ship being nudged into its docking place by a couple of tugboats. Once I observed the casting of the lines as a ship started toward the ocean.
But in the last week the dockyard has grown strangely quiet. Where normally there are six ocean going ships lined along the docks, there is now only one. What is happening? We've heard that there are plans to replace these docks with apartments and villas. But is it happening this soon?
I suspect the lack of activity may be in preparation for the big Tet holiday. If all the dockworkers take a one or two week vacation soon, maybe the ships are being sent elsewhere for the next month.
What has caused me concern (for I love watching the dockyard activity) is not even noticed by the thousands driving near the docks. I am sure they have noticed nothing out of the normal. It is only because we have the "view from above"that we know most dock work has stopped. Those we used to observe busily serving the ships are nowhere to be seen.
Am I still serving God the way I should? Maybe no one else knows. The One with the "view from above" has the answer. I need to remember that it is His accurate view that counts. I Corinthians 4:1 - 5