Perception (According to Craig)

There’s an old saying that goes something like this, “You can choose your friends but not your family.”  While that may be true I am blessed with so many family members who I dearly love. One of them is a cousin by marriage and his name is Craig. He and his wife Sarah are two of the sweetest, kindest people you could ever hope to meet and I’m so thankful they are relatives!

There are many qualities I love about both of them but what makes Craig unique is his ability to see through the mundane and interpret incidents in a witty, perceptive light.

Craig is a dairy farmer and works long, hard hours. In between the morning and evening milking he sneaks in some interesting Facebook status updates. Here is one of my recent favorites. Let me know what you think!

Perception

by Craig Waddell

Standing in the dark in a tobacco barn, under a metal roof, teaching a calf to nurse from a bottle, listening to the wind howl and hearing the drum of the rain on the roof, feeling the drip, drip, drip from a leak in the metal, one cannot help but dread the cold soaking he will get as he walks back to the stock barn in the downpour. Then he steps outside and finds that it’s nothing more than a sprinkle. Why is the perception so far from the reality? Because the metal roof is combining the sound of millions of raindrops falling on several hundred square feet and funneling it into two narrow canals in order to vibrate the membrane of two small drums, the darkness hides the truth from sight, the wind provides the sound of unseen forces , and the drip is a collection of thousands of rain drops all following the path of least resistance to that one small opening just above the single square foot of earth occupied by the farmer. Our society is filled with people who thrive on creating this same type perception of the world; some doing it for free, others making millions of dollars. These people combine the tragedies of millions of people who occupy millions of square miles of this earth, and through technology, continually funnel them onto our single square foot of earth until we dread and even fear to go out into the darkness because we believe the world has to be as bad as it sounds. Most of the time, the perception is nothing like the reality.

Craig’s article made me think about perspective. I made this picture yesterday while I was walking down the driveway.

I was looking up at the sky and praising God for the glory of His sunsets. I wonder what He sees when he looks down at me?

Perception and soul searching….I think I need another cup of coffee before I ponder these weighty matters further!