A Way of Seeing [antikvár]

Preface A Way of Seeing is the most descriptive title possible for this collection of pieces. What has really been collected here is a glimpse of what can go on inside one's head in the very middle of the noise and confusion of life. Day-by-day illustrations float around us like autumn leaves falling in drifts on a clear, breezy day in October. We are apt to see just a blur of leaves and to neglect picking one up and examining it carefully for color, texture, vein tracings, and the individuality which make it different from every other leaf. Events, experiences, happenings, news reports, weather, sickness, the daily grind, vacations, annoyances, interruptions, eating, drinking, washing, sleeping, loneliness, overwhelming numbers of people, things to do, human relationships—day by day fall around us like drifts of falling leaves, brushing us, but with fresh meaning apt to go unnoticed if we have "no eyes to see." We are told, "He that hath eyes to see, let him see," and we need to be praying that we might be "seeing-people" moment by moment in life, rather than "blind-people." Over a two-and-a-half-year period I have deadlines to meet each two weeks, and the pieces have been written at some very strange times in a great variety of places at whatever moment they had to be written! These are not "ivory tower" selections written from imaginary flights of fancy as to what might be helpful to other people, but have been written from exactly where I myself was at the time. In a way this book is a diary, written during travels and work, in sickness and in health, in eight countries, on a great variety of other people's typewriters, at odd hours in diverse places. Not only have they been written from where I was geographically, but from the reality of where my thinking and feelings were. They are often a record of how the Lord led my thinking and brought to my mind portions of Scripture in combinations which gave me a way of seeing something quite differently, with a fresh comprehension. "When do you have time to write?" is a frequent question, and to 13