My brother asked someone last weekend if he had seen the aurora. His answer was ‘no because I was looking out the wrong window.’

Does it ever strike you that maybe you are looking at your life the wrong way? That perhaps you might find a better perspective than you have right now?

I confess I have been stuck in this line of being for at least two years. But when I heard the phrase ‘looking out the wrong window’ it made me think. Often I’m told to re-set the way I am standing or walking. Sadly I find that pretty challenging. But life has to be better than this. It’s like that verse, ‘now we are looking through a glass darkly. Then we will see Him face to face'(1st Corinthians 13)  I love the idea that there will be a day when we understand everything that baffles us now. But at the moment we need to find a different point of view that makes our reality better

Every day I catch a glimpse of something precious. Most days I fail to see it. It could be something a child says, a sweet dog, a beautiful tree or flower, a birdsong. Whatever it is, choose to see it through a different window and share it with someone else.

Right now I’m looking out of my enclosing frame to be set free by what I see; our birch tree has grown at least two feet since last year, the birds are warming up for their evensong and I am safe, held by the prayers of many and the everlasting arms of my Father. What can be better than that?