January 16, 2013

THE VIEW THROUGH THE WINDOW


I read an old poem this week, a poem about a woman cursed to see the world only through a mirror.  She sat isolated in a room, never looking directly out her window at the color and life outside.  Everything she knew was a reflection of reality.

And I know I am that woman.  Every beautiful thing, every dim, half-realized image is a promise of something more beautiful that I do not yet know.  One day I will look through the window and see what I have been missing all along.  One day I will know fully, even as I am fully known.

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.


Lola Anne, 1946

She has looked through the window.
 

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