What Do You See?

I put this online a long time ago, but enough time has passed that I want to use it again. What do you see?


This sketch has been around since the late 1800s. It's a picture of both an old woman and a young woman, depending on your perspective. If you're having a hard time seeing both -- the necklace on the young woman is the old woman's mouth. Beneath the necklace of the young woman is the old woman's chin. The ear of the young woman is the old woman's eye. (If you can't see it from those descriptions, it'll take divine revelation for you to see it :)

The Lord spoke to me through this picture a few years ago when I was struggling with a situation that looked very "ugly" to me. He showed me that it wasn't the picture that needed to change. What needed to change was my perspective. Since that time, the situation that I initially thought was ugly actually turned into something I see now as beautiful. Our Father's plan is often not to change our circumstances, but to change how we see and respond to those circumstances.

Do you see other applications that could be made from this picture?