A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The wife criticizes her neighbor's laundry hanging on the line, saying it is not clean and she doesn't know how to wash correctly. One month later, the wife sees the neighbor has hung clean laundry and wonders who taught her. The husband reveals he cleaned their windows that morning. The moral is that what we see in others depends on the purity of our own perspective, and we should check our state of mind before criticizing others.

1. The Window

2. A young couple
moves into a new
neighborhood.
The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the
young woman sees her neighbor hang the wash outside.

3. 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.
.

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

5. 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.

6. The husband said:
I got up early this morning and
cleaned our windows!

7. 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.
.
.

8. And oh yes! I almost
forgot….
I see you today
much clearer than I
did yesterday…
And you?

9. Wishing you a nice day…