Too often we see only what we want to see.  Perhaps we need to look more closely.

A middle-aged couple moved into a new neighborhood.

At breakfast on the first morning in their new kitchen, the woman saw her neighbor hanging her laundry on a clothesline.

“Those clothes are not very clean,” she said. “She doesn’t know how to wash correctly.  Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.” Her husband looked out the window at the neighbor’s backyard, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang out her laundry to dry, the woman would make the same comment.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean clothes on the clothesline and said to her husband:  “Look, she finally learned how to wash correctly.  I wonder who taught her.”

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 clarity of the window through which we look.

How clean are your windows?