This thought isn't probably going to be like most thoughts. I feel I'm too ordinary. My kids are too normal. My husband is just a regular guy. My marriage is probably typical. My place of work is just my "daily grind." My photography is just centered on the main character in the photo.
And finally my life is really... Well, not even my own.
If all that sounds a lot like you, then we will make great friends.
You see I'm not very good at comparing or competing; I mostly excel at loving. But the world doesn't really count that as very important.
So I present to you... My King! His name is Jesus Christ and for some reason my thoughts stray His way all too often. I was drawn to Him at a very young age and He's just kind of...
stuck with me on this journey we call life. I'm actually surprised that He's found me because there isn't anything that separates me from you or anyone else.
Really I'm actually finding that my life doesn't reflect who I am through my kids, husband, marriage or even the work I do day-in and day-out. In fact, those pictures I take don't really reflect "me" either.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
1 Corinthians 13:12 (NIV)
I'm finding that I didn't even know me until I knew Him. My guess is as good as yours as to who I could have been or who I would be; that is, if... He didn't stick with me.
As I saw Him more clearly, I began to have a reflection, a clarity as to who I was and what I was to do.
I slowly trusted Him, and His ways. As I trusted, I saw His face and He allowed me to see mine in His.
Here is where I could weep...
Did you ever take the moment and allow yourself to really see who you are?
Broken, Lonely, Wounded, Afraid... Empty; Yet, full!
Full of everything you wouldn't want to be full of.
Well, that's me.
How different are you from me?
Hopefully, like me, your stories reflection doesn't end there. Hopefully you are now "known" and have had the opportunity to see your own reflection reflecting back at you.
"I will change your name.
You shall no longer be called...
Wounded, outcast, lonely or afraid.
I will change your name.
Your new name shall be...
Confidence, Joyfulness, Overcoming one,
Faithfulness, Friend of God,
One who seeks My Face."
-Songs Author Unknown
“...To him who overcomes... I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” Revelation 2:17 (NKJV)
I guess I'm still thinking about what my new name could be and about the reflection that peers back at me as I gaze through the windows...of My mundane daily work,
My children's eyes,
My husbands grin,
My photograph that hangs on the wall,
and my King who encourages me along toward...
His reflection
By the way, It's nice to meet you! I'll try to trust you, as you trust me, to reveal the thoughts I'm thinking and I just know that...
We'll be the Best of Friends when we're done.
Jen
