The window from which we look...

A young couple moves
into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while
they are eating 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 her wash 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.