reflections

reflections

I needn't look far to see who I really am. My eldest daughter holds me to a high standard and with little hesitation becomes for me a mirror in which I see myself, my real self, reflected clearly. None too sure I like what I see, I use this as a measuring stick for who I should be, who I want to be. Her brutal honesty may be construed as insolence, but truth is also tucked away there. Do my actions match my words?

I love spewing Bible verses at her to help her change her behaviour. What fun I am. It must be excellent to live with me....

The rhetoric that comes from my mouth, "Treat others the way you want to be treated", is often empty and thus returns void.

 "So is my word that goes out from my mouth:
   It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
   and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." 

Isaiah 55:11

"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they  will be blessed in what they do."

James 1:22-25 

My prayer is that I look into this mirror and come away changed. Better.