Perception Is Not Reality The Rev. Zachary S. Sasser Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church February 22, 2009 Transfiguration Sunday Sometime in January Zoe cornered me about the fact that I would be missing her birthday this year. I knew it was coming, and I was prepared. “Zoe” I said, “Did you know that there is a rule that if a Daddy misses his daughter’s 5th birthday he has to take her to the circus?” This information was well received, and it got even better when I asked her if she wanted to “get fancy” for the event. When we parked the car and got out I was wearing a tux jacket and shirt complete with bow tie and top hat atop my blue jeans and sneakers. She was dressed to the nines with a princess dress, complete with sunglasses, a feather boa, and a satin and feather birthday hat. A little girl ahead of us did a double take, tugged her mother’s sleeve, and said, “Mom, I think they are IN the circus!” And for that very moment, we were. People see what they are prepared to see...
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