Dirty Laundry

(Originally posted to the Facebook Feed on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 840a)

Here's a fun story we've seen floating about on the internet. Many thanks to Institute friend Tara for first bringing it to our attention.

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A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. One morning while they were eating breakfast, the wife saw their neighbor through the kitchen window, hanging laundry on the clothesline.

“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.

After that, every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

Some time later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line outside and remarked to her husband, "Look, she finally learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her."

The husband smiled, then responded. "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows," he said.

And so it is with life. What we see when looking at others depends on the purity of the window through which we view them.