What you see is what you get
things become what we want them to be. take a stormy day, you can look at it from the perspective of it being too cold and wet to go out, that it has upset your plans, or you can get excited about the prospect of venturing outdoors with the feel of the breeze against your face, a chance to get on all your high-tech gear and see if it really works instead of standing under the shower to see if it is really waterproof. it depends on how you look at it. the issue of brillance in each young person is exactly the same, how we chose to look at the individual and what we chose to look for will determine what we see. i remember teaching in a Quaker school who had as one of their core values 'there is something of God in every person'. there was something different about the ethos and culture of that school, a sense of respect, tolerance and determination to look for the potential in students. if you are working with people today realize that the way you look will determine what you see. it is like the gold miner who disgarded a vein of bright coloured stone in his search for gold, not realizing that he had tapped into a rich deposit of diamonds! learn to see the brillance in every individual.
