Five Minute Friday - Perspective

I actually got brave enough to try Gypsy Mama's Five Minute Friday again.  No backspacing, no editing or over-thinking.  I'm not so great at it yet, but I'm determined to keep trying!

I love this week's word... Perspective. 

Go.

I see five paintings hanging on the wall.  Each one different, special, priceless.  Five different paintings tell five different stories even though they've been created by the same artist.

Am I the painter, the art critic?  Not really either one.  Maybe just an art lover, appreciator.  I see the paintings and I'm love with each one of them even though each is unique.

I see the flaws and try to minimize them.  I see the beauties and try to make them bigger, better, more apparent.

Even though I'm the not the creator, maybe I'm the assistant to the Creator.  I know these paintings better than anyone other than the Creator and I still love them.  Because I know them so well, my perspective of them is different, deeper, more appreciative than any one else's.

They are my children, beautiful and flawed.  I try to minimize the flaws by discipline and mercy and grace.  I see the beauties and desire to show them off, delighting in them.

Each of my children will have their own stories written for them, by them and their Creator.  And I will continue to stand back and enjoy them from the eye's of a mama.

Stop.

Care to try it yourself?  Head over to The Gypsy Mama and link up, too!

(image courtesy of bing)