A speaker held up a blank sheet of paper and asked, “What do you see?” The reply was, “A piece of paper.” Made sense. That’s pretty much what everyone saw…

He then placed the paper on the podium, made a tiny dot in the center and held it up again.

“What do you see now?”
“A dot,” was the unanimous reply from the audience.
“Imagine this blank paper is a person,” the speaker said.

“The small dot you saw is his or her biggest fault. The white surrounding the dot represents all this person’s worthwhile qualities which we so easily fail to see. Often a fault seems bigger than it really is and we allow it to overshadow the many positive aspects of that person’s personality.”

Wow. What a way to look at a dot…when, in fact, the “whiteness” that surrounds it also screams a message—a positive one.

Try to look at your family and friends with the eyes of God’s love, not focusing on the dots, because the Bible says, “Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.”

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