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What do I see in the looking glass
Am I looking through, in, or beyond
Am I seeing now, later, or the past
Am I seeing the permanent
Or things that won’t last
What am I seeing in the looking glass?
Sometimes I stare straight ahead
And I see nothing - black - or clear
Sometimes I look carefully at the reflection
But nothing seems near
Nothing seems dear
I feel numb - with no feeling
And all I see are meaningless objects
Sometimes I see circles that never end
Circles going round and round
The circles of my daily life from the time I spend
On everything urgent
But nothing really important
I should be excited about what I see in the looking glass
My friends and family in the reflection
My accomplishments, my dreams, my goals
But the reflections do nothing for me
And I keep looking for rainbows
That will show up someday
Somewhere somehow some way
I keep working and dreaming and sacrificing every day
But in the looking glass I see nothing
But abstract illusions
That hardly ever keep their promise of ultimate happiness
And the image in the looking glass
Doesn’t make sense to me at all
I used to have my life planned
And I knew exactly what to do
But life disagreed with me
And planned things differently
Please Lord, send some light to me
Send some light to make a rainbow
That will fill my life with color
In the midst of a gray rain
And all the pain of losing someone who meant so much
I still love them but I cannot tell them how I feel
I still hear them in my mind
But I cannot see them
And the looking glass holds almost nothing
That I want to see anymore
Not even myself
But somehow God sends light every time I get this way
It takes time, lots of time
But He always brightens up the day
And He helps me to remember a promise or two
That I can hang on to
Even when I’m so tired
And now I see two circular rainbows,
Neverending lovingkindness and faithfulness
Two rainbows
In a circle
And two promises
That will never be destroyed:
“He will be the stability of your times, a wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; reverence for the Lord is the key to this treasure.”
Isaiah 33:6
“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, in paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them and rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, and I will not leave them undone.”
Isaiah 42:16
Sometimes we are blind because there isn’t enough light. When we lose someone, our eyes are blinded by tears and by many unanswered questions about the future. How can we go on? What will happen now?
In this sense, we are blind. But God promises to give us stability, salvation, wisdom, knowledge, and to lead us and guide us. He will turn the darkness into light.
And when there is enough light in the midst of the rainy days of sorrow, a rainbow appears - a symbol of his faithfulness.
The looking glass may contain the ordinary, the reflections of our life during the everyday. Seeing them (after we lose someone) can turn them into things we might even loathe.
A kind of darkness comes over our life, and the looking glass doesn’t hold the promise it used to as we reflect upon our life and our goals and dreams.
But God says, “I will make darkness into light before them and rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, and I will not leave them undone.”
“Undone” means to leave out, to leave destitute, to forsake or even abandon to destruction. God will not leave us that way.
“God is not a man, that he should lie; He doesn’t change his mind like humans do. Has he ever promised, without doing what he said?”
Numbers 23:19, Living Bible
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