A Presbyterian minister in Roanoke, Virginia told this story during a service I attended probably 18 years ago (yikes!) and I have never forgotten it!! There were two very ill men in a hospital room where they had been for some duration.  The one man had a bed next to the window and everyday he would describe in detail to his roommate the scene in the park across the street, who did not share the view.  He would give elaborate details about the children playing ball with young mothers chasing after them, and ducks waddling around the edge of