Beyond Dust Particles: An Experiment in Sunday School by Amy Fiedler
Perspective is a curious thing. I find that mine seems to be in a constant state of change as I grow older, add to my family, explore new ideas, and continue to know the Lord in a deeper way. C. S. Lewis wrote an essay entitled “Meditation in a Toolshed” (read it here) that speaks about perspective in such a beautifully descriptive way. He tells of an experience where he was standing in a dark toolshed observing a sunbeam, shining in through a crack in the door. He saw the beam of light, with thousands of dust particles floating through it and nothing else. He was looking at the beam. But, when he physically moved and allowed the sunlight to shine on his eyes, he was able to see something completely different; he saw the green leaves of the trees outside the shed and the sun itself. He was now looking along the beam. Lewis goes on to examine the tension in our modern world between “external accounts” and “inside experiences”: looking at versus looking …