Look again

I asked our youngest, “Did you finish tidying your room?”

Impatiently, he replied, “Yes! I’m done!”

So I went upstairs to have a look.

The room was far from orderly.

Instead of calling him up to see what I saw, I took a picture.

When I went downstairs and showed it to him, he paused.

“Oh. Ahhh … Eek. Right.”

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When we’re in the middle of things, we don’t always see clearly.

A frame — a photograph, a pause, a wider view — can reveal what was hidden.

Sometimes all it takes is seeing the same thing … from just a step back.