• Color Of The View

  Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 17, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: United Methodist

COLOR OF THE VIEW

"There is a house in New England where the owner designed a unique feature. The owner of the house often took visitors to the tower and would ask them to look through one of the windows. Each of the four windows was different. The red-tinted window could make it look like a hot summer day. There was a blue-tinted window that could make it the outside appear like that of a cold winter’s day. A third window had a brownish-tint and gave the beholder an outdoor view that would appear like fall. A fourth window had a greenish tint that hinted of spring.

Bishop Ernest A. Fitzgerald who tells this story said of the tower in that house: "What the visitor saw in the world depended on the window through which the world was viewed."

Source: (Bishop Ernest A. Fitzgerald. Keeping Pace: Inspirations In The Air. Greensboro: Pace Communications, Inc., 1988, p. 200).