Joe Willie On The Shrimpbox: The Window

A friend of mine sent this in:


"The Window"

A young couple moved into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while they were having breakfast,
the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the
wash outside.

"That laundry is not very clean," she said, "She
doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she
needs better laundry soap." Her husband looked
on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang the wash
to dry, the young woman would make the same
comment.

About a 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.”

The husband said, “I got up this morning and
washed the windows.”

And so it is with life. What we see when watching
others depends on the purity of the window
through which we look.

Before we give any criticism, it might be a good
idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves
if we are ready to see the good rather than to be
looking for something in the person we are about
to judge.