A young couple moved into a new town.
The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman
sees her neighbour hanging the washing outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better washing powder"
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Every time her neighbour would hang her washing to dry, the young
woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice
clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?"
The husband said,
"I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life.
What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
John O'Donohue says "Everything depends on the lens you use.
Make your gaze beautiful. "
It is so easy to to see imperfection in others and forget our own which may be different. That is why I like 'beautiful imperfection' as a frame work for understanding all human kind. We are all beautiful. We are all imperfection.
You are different than me - in your beauty.
You are different than me - in your imperfection.
I believe we can refocus.
With outside help we can be different in the way we look at other.
They can tell you know.
When we look with disdain - they can read facial expressions
They can see our posture, read the pitch and vocal tones.
When love is in the gaze - it is seen, heard and felt.
Make love ...................
