Obviously I am not good at keeping up with this yet. :)

I was thinking the other day about a priniciple I remembering learning on a kids show years ago. They talked about how a family or group of people draw closer to each other when they draw closer to Christ. The illustration was of a family being represented by dots on a circle and Jesus being in the middle. As each person on the circle moved closer to Jesus it made the circle smaller and therefore they became closer to each other. Today when I was thinking about this...I thought about how when you are all the way up to the center of the circle you kind of look through the middle, through Jesus in this illustration, when you look at the person on the other side. Doesn't it change how you view someone when you look at them through Jesus? It does. If I filtered everything I thought about someone through who Jesus is and what He has done, it would change how I treated that person. Then I thought about the people even closer to you on the circle. The ones right on either side. Sometimes we can show greater impatience and less Christ-likeness to the people closest to us. Maybe because we are so close to them that we have to lean in to Christ a little bit more to look at them through His eyes. Just a thought. Probably a silly illustration. But why not? I'm sure sillier things than that have been posted today.