The Journey without Railings

Like a passing reflection in a shopkeepers window

How clearly I see myself 

I look sidewise, try to grasp a glimpse  

But the shifting image slips away

How is it the only eyes I can’t meet are mine

The face I fear in these funhouse mirrors

What if they echo back "unloved"?

I am the person it feels impossible to know

There's only One who fully knows my soul

The "me" within all my adaptations

Born broken into a shattered world

A murky kaleidoscope of waters

Yet I'm told I was made in Your image too

Let us look to the perfect looking glass

We will see "flawed, loved, I will restore you"

The journey without railings goes within

Proverbs 20:5, Jeremiah 17:9-10, Proverbs 21:2, Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 27: 19, James 4:8, Psalm 51:10, Hebrews 4:10 Isaiah 53:6, Hebrews 10:22, Psalm 139:23-24, James 1:22-25, Genesis 1:26