What I see behind my eyes changes what I see in front of them; my
imagination shapes my perception so that I must look not once but twice at
the world to see it whole. Walking down the street, I see a wild-looking
character sitting on the steps of the library. His gray hair is matted. His
dense beard covers the slogan on his grimy T-shirt. His small darting eyes
are as volatile as a hawk's. I look once and think "drifter." I look twice
and think "John the Baptist," and in that imaginative act my relationship to
the man is changed.
Barbara Brown TaylorThe
Preaching Life
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