If you read this title, you probably think this is going to be about how valuable vultures are to the environment. They are valuable, but that is not what this is about.
While sitting on the back patio at my in-laws’ home, my mother-in-law pointed out the big birds circling over their lakeside property. She said she loved watching them. My thought was, Yuck! They are just nasty vultures! Then I thought maybe I should stop this train of thought and actually watch those nasty dead-flesh eaters. And I did.
With new eyes, I looked and saw that, yes, their flight was effortless and graceful and, honestly, more impressive than the flight of an eagle.
I have missed admiring this beautiful flight my whole life because of my negative mindset toward those scavengers. When I saw them, I thought of their vulgar feasting on a dead squirrel in the road. Now I see them differently.
My MIL also loves mesquite trees. Having stepped on those thorns, I have little use for them. But I am again missing beauty because of a negative mindset.
Come to think of it, my MIL welcomes people in much the same way. She looks past the bad rap and sees the beauty where others may miss it.
There is a lesson there.
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