this is the life

How innocent it is to see what's before you as a great curtain, ready to unveil the next presentation before you.

This is the life.

Then...

How disheartening it is to start to see the curtain differently.... to notice its dust, rips and tears... to wonder if there ever was any genuine magic at all.

This is the life.

Then...

How redemptive it is to review it all, and review yourself... and then to not just see the seams, but to see the seams as yet another unveiling of the next presentation before you.

This is the life.
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." (1 Corinthians 13:12)