On the back of the current issue of Weavings is a very thought provoking prayer / poem. It is written by John Mogabgab and here is what it says,
To see the world in the
transfiguring light
of God’s grace
rather than God
in the distorting prisms
of the world
is the turning for which
we must pray daily.
Distorting – that is such a descriptive word – taking truth and twisting and mangling it to the point that it doesn’t look the same any more – like looking into an amusement park mirror. The world in which we live is driven by values that have twisted what life is really about.
So often, I catch myself looking to God to fix this, or get involved in that area of my life – as if God’s role in the world is to make me happy. But I think when I do that, I am looking at God through my own distorted view. Perhaps I should learn to look at my situation through the eyes of God’s grace instead.
That is easy to say but difficult to do. That is why it should be our prayer daily.
Clay in the Hands 
Sad that at times we let this ‘distorted’ world influence our views of God’s simple plans. We often make it much more difficult than it has to be and end up ‘distorting’ ouselves into people we wish we weren’t. Striving to be better at looking though clean glasses (cleaned by His grace) and not through rose colored lenses or those crazy slinky googly eyed glasses.