The question for this first Sunday of a New Year is this, HOW DO YOU SEE IT NOW? There are two truisms that modern psychology has given us about life.

The first is this: WE SEE WHAT WE ARE PREPARED TO SEE.

Paul Tournier tells about taking a friend out to his farm. When they arrived his friend suggested that they take a little walk and collect some mushrooms for a mushroom omelette. "That will take some time!" Tournier thought to himself. But he was wrong. His friend picked up a basket and off they went. As they walked his friend was constantly bending down, picking, bending down, picking. He was the son of a food inspector, and like his father knew all about mushrooms. Tournier was astonished. In ten minutes the basket was full. Tournier kept searching, but saw nothing but grass. He real…