Our Scripture for Today is Philippians 4:8
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
When we can’t see very well, we can go to the eye-doctor and he can fix our sight. He can make us see better, usually. But sometimes it doesn’t work out so well. Especially if the seeing that fails us is not the eyes in our head, but the eyes in our heart.
Two little boys unknowingly discussed this. As the boys were talking and one of them asked the other, “Wouldn’t you hate to wear glasses all the time?”
“No-o-o,” the boy answered, “not if I had the kind grandma wears. She sees how to fix a lot of things, and she sees lots of nice things to do on rainy days, and she sees when folks are tired and sad, and what will make them feel better, and she always sees what you meant to do even if you haven’t got things just right. I asked her one day how she could see that way all the time, and she said it was the way she learned to look at things as she grew older. So it must be her glasses.”
Let me close with this one great adage: “The buzzard and the hummingbird both see what they are looking for.”
May we ever be hummingbirds that look for good things and not buzzards who only look for dead things.
Lonnie Davis