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There is something peculiar about mirrors when you think about them. Their only purpose is to focus everything on you! You can be rushing around at a million miles an hour trying to serve everyone you can. However, the second you step in front of that mirror it becomes all about you. We drop whatever we were thinking and begin to think...: "Oh no, is that a hair out of place?" "What are those spots on my teeth?" "Why can't I look as good as Skylar?' "Holy cow! Is that a pimple or Mount St. Helens?" Windows on the other hand take the focus completely off of you and put it on whatever is outside or beyond the little room you're in. Sometimes people will stop in front of a window to watch a fight, or gawk at a beautiful sunset, or even to put their mouth on the window so it will leave a smudge (is that just me?) I
really think as we continue living our lives we feel we are being transformed into one of two thing: a mirror or a window. What I mean by that is this: some of us feel like we need to be a window, and we will pursue serving others with all of our time and energy. We will continually seek to find out what other people need and how to get that for them. On the other hand, if serving isn't our thing we will view our lives as a mirror: we use our lives as an opportunity to grow ourselves. We might spend most of our time trying to figure out what we need and what we want and just how to attain these things. Are one of these better than the other? Most of you church goers would probably say the life which represents the window, the life of service, and I think you are right. However, I don't think the answer is either/or. I think the answer is more of a both/and. If we were to just serve, and never pay any attention to what is going on inside of our own lives then eventually we will lose our heart. We will lose that fire, that passion we once had for doing God's work. The second GREATEST commandment was this: "Love your neighbor as YOURSELF (Matthew 22:39)." I am not saying to stop serving, and I am not saying it is good to be only concerned about yourself. What I am saying is we need to serve, but at the same time we need to be searching for what God is trying to tell us about us, and what He is trying to point out to us in our own lives. If we only focus on the lives' of others we will never experience true growth. Sometimes I think we serve so much because we're afraid of what God might say if we actually looked in the mirror and asked the scary question: "Who am I?" "Where do I fall short?" "What do I fear?" So, if you are a mirror, get over yourself! If you are a window, it's time to look in the mirror. If you are perfectly in the middle...please come

talk to me because I sure need some help with this.

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