About a year ago, I found this mirror in a dirty thrift shop, in a not-so-great part of town. After some research, I found it’s actually from the late 1800s and has seen a long history of faces.

I love it because it reminds me of one of my favorite verses;

1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

I live my life, not ever quite sure of where I am going. Sometimes, I look around and feel left behind. People seem to be going further, faster. They're moving to thriving cities, traveling, adventuring, breaking free, resting, loving, living… and, I feel stuck.

There never seems to be quite enough time or resources for me to “get there”. The answers for me seem to always be; “Stay & Wait.”

I’m currently reading “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, Discipleship in an Instant Society”, by Eugene Peterson. In this book, he describes, in beautiful terms, the simple often exhausting life of the Christ-follower. This life looks like walking the same road faithfully, for a long time, almost nothing about it is instant. You might be the only one who stays when everyone leaves for the gleaming adrenaline rush of adventure. You may be the one who works, day after day, with the lowly at home, while you watch people making huge strides on a foreign mission field. You may wonder if you're wasting your life, but you're not. You just can’t see clearly, yet. I have a feeling that many lives called dull here, will one day shine all the more brightly, in eternity. All the patience, the prayer, the endurance, is going to produce a weight of glory. And when I look at the lives of the saints gone before me, I do see adventure-filled adrenaline, it just looks different than I expected. I bet you have some of that spark in your life, too. I’d encourage you to fight to notice it.

Jeremiah 6:16

“Thus says the LORD:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.”