"If you
look at a window, you see flyspecks, dust,
the
crack where Junior's Frisbee hit it.
If
you look through a window, you see the world."
Frederick
Buechner, Wishful Thinking
There
is this crack in our kitchen window,
from
a bb gun gone awry.
There
were days I saw that crack
with
every glance through the window.
Lately,
I am getting better at looking through it--
to the beauty that is our yard.
All
of life is like that window.
People,
places, circumstances--
cracks
in every one.
There
was a time that I analyzed
the
specks and cracks in everything.
I
wanted them all to be fixed.
Somehow
I thought if we all lived a
certain way, well, there should be no cracks.
If I could get a little more control over things,
my life would be less effected by
them.
When
you are focused on specks and cracks,
you will definitely see them--everywhere.
Today
I am even more aware
of
all that mars the windows,
but
I have gotten better at looking past them.
Maybe
because I have gotten better
at
looking past some of my own.
Sometimes
you just have to quit
staring
at things.
There
is beauty to be found
as
we look through the windows.
As
we determine to look through things
rather
than at them, our perspective changes.
As
we focus more on trusting Him,
we
are better able to let go of our need
to remove the specks and fix all the cracks--
especially the ones we see in others.
I am pretty sure Jesus had
something to say about all that.
I want to get better at seeing
the beauty that is all around me.
It's a perspective framed
a little bit more by love.
a little bit more by love.
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