"The weakness of pride lies after all in this; that oneself is a window. It can be a colored window, if you will; but the more thickly you lay on the colors the less of a window it will be. The two things to be done with a window are to wash it and then forget it. So the truly pious have always said the two things to do personally are to cleanse and to forget oneself."
~ G.K. Chesterton
We read this quote in our breakfast Lenten devotional yesterday. I realize that every analogy breaks down if analyzed too much, but I immediately wanted to find some stained glass. I searched my favorite antique shop but balked at paying so much money. Then I remembered that my mom had a panel of stained glass that she found in the house when they purchased the property in 1981. I immediately called her and asked to borrow it. When she heard why I wanted stained glass, she carried the analogy even further...this window pane is broken, and so are we.
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