The view from the couch

There are alot of choices for focus when you sit on the couch in my living room.  Of course directly in front is the whopping 32″ RCA crt TV that Jennie and I bought 8 years ago when we got married.  Ol’ faithful you could call her.  I keep hoping she will give up the ghost so I can spring for some new technology but she is still hanging on.  Once the speaker stopped working and it was real exciting, but I went up and hit her on the side and boom, sound.  So close!

To the left is the kitchen/nook with the french doors that lead to the back yard. I have recently fenced it in (hence the photo at the top of the page).  Out the doors you can see the main attraction on our parcel of land which is a large rock, no boulder, wait…mountain, that juts out of the ground.  A massive masonary miracle that is literally 6 feet high, 12 feet wide and about 35 feet long.  I assume it is like an iceberg capable of sinking any land-faring “titanic” with its tip the only telling feature.  (That could be a whole different blog.)  Also, out the french doors is the view of two spoiled dogs that now claim the yard as their territory and have turned my back porch into a red dust covered lounge.  It is starting to hender the view through the glass.

But, to the right is a window.  Two actually.  When the blinds are open you can see down the curve of the road to houses that line our neighborhood.  Tilt your head slightly to the right and you can count at least seven homes.  It is nice view decorated with trees, green lawns, and flowers (not ours, my wife and I have no skills in the gardening department.)  I can see windows on those homes.  Even as I type, I wonder, “are there people out there looking this way?”  (It doesn’t look like it.)  But there are people out there.  To put it into an eternal perspective, souls.  But to keep it human, needs.  I wonder what the burdens are that fill up the hearts and minds of those neighbors I can see from here.  What is the condition of their lives?  And the thing I wonder the most right now…why don’t I know?  

So what about it right? 

Well to the front – Matthew 6:22-23   

To the left – Psalm 19:1-9

To the right – Matthew 22:37-40, 28:18-20

So, I wonder if I should change the way my couch is facing…….