Landing on the moon

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

- Matthew 5:8

It's been said that we don't know who discovered water, but we can be sure it wasn't a fish. I'm always discovering something new from people with developmental disabilities, looking at the world from an unfamiliar angle, as if I was seeing the world for the first time. 

A few years ago now, my wife, Chieko, was working at a group home (the same group home where we were to meet). Every day was full of activity (toileting, bathing, cleaning, appointments, community events, errands, accounting, and so on) and after a particularly eventful day she was tying up some loose ends and washing the dishes cluttering the kitchen sink. 

One of the elderly residents with a tender heart and a keen eye for beauty, motioned to Chieko to come and see something that caught his eye through the front window. Chieko is always remarkably ready to set aside anything for people, and as busy as she was that evening she went to see what was capturing his mind out the window. 

He pointed eagerly with a big smile, and there it was: a full moon in a clear sky, shining so brightly she couldn't imagine how she had missed it with her head buried under a mountain of dirty dishes. They stood there in silence, simply enjoying each others presence and their secret discovery of God's creative activity that night.