Heroes Not Zombies

When this caught my eye I thought it looked like a stained glass window. The metalwork formed a frame and the coloured light seemed perfectly contained within it.

But in fact the stained glass window was behind me and as the shaft of sunlight shone through it, it channeled directly through the ironwork onto the back wall of the church.

I like stained glass windows. They are often my favourite feature in a church building. But this particular experience was different. What I was looking at was the result of the sun, the window behind me, the wrought ironwork in front of me and the pale stone of the church wall.

To see the actual stained glass window I had to look behind me, but, somehow, the view straight ahead was way more captivating. It was more subtle, more delicate and more beautiful.

Sometimes life is like that. What lies behind us colours what lies ahead and makes it more interesting, and even more beautiful.