Mirror Yourself
By: radicalroy
February 10’09 Tajikistan
God speaks to us about ourselves, about what God wants us to do and what God wants us to become; and this is the area where I believe that we know so much more about God than we admit even to ourselves, where people hear God speak even if they do not believe. A face comes toward us down the street: do we raise our eyes or de we keep them lowered, passing by in silence? Somebody says something about somebody else and what he says happens to be not only cruel but also funny, and everybody laughs. Do we laugh to, or do we speak the truth? When a friend has hurt us, do we take pleasure in hating him, because hate has its pleasure as well as love, or do we try to build back some flimsy little bridge? Sometime when we are alone, thoughts come swarming into our heads like bees-some of them destructive, ugly, self-defeating thoughts, some of them creative and glad. Which thoughts do we choose to think then, as much as we have the choice? Will we brave today or coward today? Not in some big way probably but in some little foolish way, yet brave still? Will we be honest today or a liar? Just some pint-sized honesty, but honest still. Will we be a friend or cold as ice today?
All the absurd little meetings, decisions, inner skirmishes that go to make up our days. It all adds up to very little, and yet it all adds up to very much. Our days are full of nonsense, and yet not, because it is precisely into the nonsense of our days that God speak to us words of great significance.
photo by: Mumtaz Salih Erdem // Flickr
