I don't like to think of myself as shallow, but I am. In Mexico we didn't have a mirror, well sort of, to be honest I had a little 3 inch by 3 inch mirror but that was all. I would like to tell that it was totally freeing and didn't once bother me, but that would be a lie. You see, the truth is that I am shallow and at times my shallowness distracts me from matters that are far more important. I hate it.
[this picture will make sense in the end]
One week without a mirror. I didn't realize how important a mirror was to me until it was taken away. The more I think about it the more I see the hold it has on me. The thing is I was fine without one. The problem is I didn't always think I was. I didn't know what I looked like, sometimes it was nice and sometimes it bugged me. My problem, and I would venture to say it is a cultural problem, is that I often judge my value in the mirror. This is wrong. It is time we took a lesson from another culture. I heard once of a reporter who asked a tribal woman, "How are you all so proud of your bodies? We are not like that in America." She pointed to the jungle and said, "Look at those trees, is one more beautiful than the other?" The reporter looked a little confused and said, "No." The tribal woman continued, "Love your tree."
You see, our value is not found in a mirror.
Our bodies are a display of God's creativity.
So, love your tree.
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