Mirror, Mirror
Double images
Distortion
Nighttime musings
Quiet thoughts
What is, what will be, what could be …
The Mirror of Eternity
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity!
~Clare of Assisi
Place your soul in the brilliance of glory!
Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance!
And transform your whole being into the image of the Godhead Itself
through contemplation!
So that you too may feel what His friends feel
as they taste the hidden sweetness
which God Himself has reserved
from the beginning
for those who love Him.
The Muse’s Truth
EARLY one day, the Muse, when eagerly bent on adornment,
Followed a swift-running streamlet, the quietest nook by it seeking.
Quickly and noisily flowing, the changeful surface distorted
Ever her moving form, the goddess departed in anger.
Yet the stream called mockingly after her, saying: “What, truly!
Wilt thou, not view, then, the truth, in my mirror so clearly depicted?”
But she already was far away, on the brink of the ocean,
In her figure rejoicing and duly arranging her garland.
~Goethe
My Prayer
My prayer tonight while waiting in quietness and stillness, pondering the truths of Romans. Considering His many mercies and common graces. Grateful for repentance, forgiveness, and the newness of life. My desire is to reflect the Lord’s glory.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 CSB
