Healing Mirrors.

Have you ever stopped to take in all the beauty of a mirror? The way that the light refracts and illuminates the space around it. Its ability to make a room look bigger without ever moving the four walls that surround it. Most of all I think about how truthful it is, and truth is an amazingly powerful entity. The mirror has the ability to show you exactly who you are, the unedited, messy, sometimes horribly embarrassing raw version of you. When I put my face as close I can get it up to that mirror I see the details of my skin, the old acne scars, faded freckles, and the shade of sea foam green set behind disappearing little black circles reacting to the light in my eyes. If I’m honest I usually tend to cringe and look away as quickly as I can. And in those moments when I catch my reflection in passing mirrors I get to thinking…if they had mirrors that showed you what your soul looked like…what would I see in mine? Would I default cringe like usually do? It makes me wonder what would be revealed if the walls came down and we got to examine what’s really in there, the center of your existence here on the earth, your soul that houses the very life inside of you in the company of the Holy Spirit. I wonder if I would be proud to own what I saw in that mirror. Well…that’s when the soul searching begins, the long journey towards conforming yourself to Christ’s image. The hard truth is also this: sometimes our mirrors are cracked. They distort and reflect us in fractured little bits and pieces, and that often exactly how we feel and operate: broken. Once upon a time someone took rocks and threw them at your mirror to ruin the way you see yourself forever. I’m so sorry they tried to hurt you, I’m so sorry they didn’t see the damage they were inflicting upon you and I’m sorry that they convinced you into believing you deserved it. I also have to look and see if I was ever a person holding the rocks: forgive and repent. If we could just heal these mirrors we judge ourselves in everyday, put down the ammo to annihilate our value and self worth as human beings and start to practice the very character traits we expect from others. STOP CRITIZING, MINIMIZING, MISUNDERSTANDING and IGNORING the body, personality, operating system and soul the good Lord entrusted you to take care of. Stop racing to be the first one to degrade yourself so that you feel like if everyone knows your flaws you wont have to have it pointed out and truly deal with it. I know your heart is hurting and you feel like all the little pieces of you that were meant to be beautiful are so ugly and fall short of your dream version of you. But don’t let the past dictate the way that you live your life, let it shape you into a more compassionate and considerate person who is on a mission to heal the mirrors of the world.You are not perfect, but you are you and without you in the world this life would be missing an amazing, wonderful, gorgeous soul that has so much to offer to humanity. Inside that heart of yours there is the power to change this world, the ability to look past the small words and the ploys to break you down to nothing and RUN triumphant and imperfect into God’s perfect hands. You are worth so much more than what (insert person who didn’t value you) pitifully tried to be for you. Take heart, Jesus adores you, and when you look back at that broken mirror you have been a slave to I hope you see the real and honest truth. I pray that your mirror and mind goes through a healing transformation and all the sharp edges that have caused wounds would mend and reveal something incredible we’ve never been brave enough to see. I hope you realize through the restoration of your mirror that you have so much to contribute to mankind, the ability to reach through  other peoples broken mirrors that they see themselves in every morning and give them the courage to embrace their full worth too. Someone wise told me this “You can’t love people out of their state of brokenness, but you can love them in their brokenness.” Friend, please love yourself and others just as they are and I know we will come to fine a world of beautiful, whole mirrors reflecting light off of each other so that darkness will never prevail. What a wonderful world that could be.

POEM: The Art.

Its amazing to think of how many people there are,

That are each completely different near and far.

The components of a soul are complex and vast,

From present day to the humanity of the past.

I want to know Gods intention as he created my tent,

That he gave me a house for my soul to rent.

For a short time I will dwell here fulfilling purpose,

He divinely carved my heart for service.

I long to discover and embrace my true self.

Whether I remain in poverty or health.

I pray I find a way to recharge and renew,

That spark of energy that will carry me through.

Be my confidence when I have none left,

Without you my living would be depleted by theft.

The world will try and fit you into its mold,

But its best to ask the artist himself what truth his art does hold,

I will walk forward bold and unashamed,God, thank you for my design you took time to be framed.