Looking through Sacred eyes

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

                                                          John Joseph Powell

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Looking in the mirror we see it all

The beauty perhaps

But it is most likely that we see

All the warts and wrinkles

The sagging chin

Every flaw jumps off the glass

And our eyes reflect back

All the emptiness and fear in our souls

Most of us (with rare exceptions) cannot appreciate ourselves

We are our own worst critics

And we cannot see our own beauty

But sometimes someone

Looks at us with the eyes of love

They see what is best

And they think we are wonderful

Beautiful

And we mostly believe it

And when that someone is God?

Ah