Dirty Laundry

Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others. . .but to get ahead of ourselves.”

—Thomas S. Monson

A young, successful couple found their dream home. Shortly after purchasing it, the couple sat at their kitchen table to eat breakfast. The wife looked out the window, and to her surprise, she saw her neighbor hanging laundry on the clothesline.

“That laundry isn’t clean, it’s still dirty!” she said to her husband. “Someone needs to teach her a thing or two when it comes to washing her clothes!”

A couple of days later, the couple sat down at their kitchen table for a meal. The wife saw her neighbor hanging clothes on the clothesline. But this time something was different.

“Wow, look!” the surprised wife said to her husband, “Her clothes are clean! Someone must have taught her how to wash  her clothes!” Without raising his head from his plate, the husband kindly responded, “Actually, honey, I got up early this morning and washed the window.”

And so it is with life—what we see when watching others depends on the window through which we look. Washing our own windows from time to time changes our perspective.

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