Oil Slicks & Dental Floss

How we look at the world is all a matter of perspective.  As we age we have a tendency to loose our child-like perspective.  Because children are still very much connected to their spiritual selves they view the world differently. They view the world with reverence and awe.   As we grow older and more cynical about our lives society seems to squelch that reverence in us.

Here are a couple of examples:

 When our son was about 4 years old he was allowed to walked to the end of the sidewalk to wave goodbye to my husband as he went off to work.   As my husband pulled the car out of our assigned parking spot he noticed a puddle of oil on the ground.  As he got out of the car, sputtering to himself about how much this was going to cost him to fix the problem, our son stooped down and pointed to the oil spot shimmering on a recently rain soaked pavement

and said, "Daddy.  Look at all the rainbows!"

Recently our daughter called to tell us the latest antics of our 3 year-old grandson.  It seems he was helping her unpack groceries when he found the new container of dental floss.   Thinking he was going to put it away, she didn't bother to check on him until he said, "Mommy, come look."  What she found was our grandson sitting very proudly on the sofa with the entire roll of dental floss unwound all over the living room.  When our daughter asked him what he had done he replied,  "I made 'X's.  Look at all the 'X's."   He was right.  And it was the letter he had been learning to write in his home schooling.

Life really is all a matter of perspective.