I have 30 mirrors in my home.
This does include one in the garage, but it is hung. This does not include my creative inventory.
I only realized this when we had our cleaning party last weekend.
I was cleaning mirrors after children had cleaned mirrors;)
I started counting and was a bit taken aback.
Then I started thinking about my life the past few years…
How things are drawn to a person…
How who you are and what you are about seems to surface both literally and figuratively.
In an introduction to some journaling time at work I shared this…my 30 mirrors.
They might have categorized this as one of my randoms thoughts pulled from the air.
You cannot force reflection…being reflective.
I can ask you to look at yourself…30 times.
It does not mean you will see…or even truly look.
Having 30 mirrors does not give me reflective children, or even children who truly see their beauty.
If it is possible to be too reflective, I am.
Perhaps my mirrors were to bring light to behavior in my house that wasn’t working.
I’m not sure the mirrors were what changed things.
I like the idea of the symbol of a mirror…the meaning and possibility.
Father Greg Boyle quoted Mother Theresa when he said, “we forgot that we belong to one another.”
He went on to say that we are called to reside at the perimeter. Invite others in. He says serving others is the hallway to the grand ballroom of kinship. We should show up, hold a mirror up so that we might help one another remember who we are and why we are here.
I like that…very much.