Who do you see when you look in the mirror?
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Great thread, Proverbs 35, as always. 
Personally, I've never liked looking in the mirror, and still don't, because it's a constant reminder to me that I am "different" and that I have no "real" place.
Sure, I have "my identity in Christ" (as all the good church people told me while I was growing up), but as an adoptee who is a different race than her parents and has no known history of her past, I always felt like the leftover puzzle piece that doesn't fit into any puzzle.
I always envied people who were told that they look "just like their" mother, father, cousin, etc., and I've often felt an inner mourning over the fact that I will never have a known biological relative. I adore the parents who raised me, but I am very different from them, and have often wondered if I'm "like" anyone else on earth, in any given way.
Ironically, I had a friend several years ago who was an identical twin, and she felt as if she didn't fit anywhere because of the exact opposite reason--she resembled another human being so closely that she was treated as if she were the same person as her sister, and never felt as if anyone allowed her to have an identity of her own.
Because of stories like this, I always feel drawn to people who feel like they don't fit in, and especially to those who are acting out in ways that some people might not understand. My prayer for them is always, "Oh Lord, no one understands, but I know you do. Please help them, because they don't know who they are..."
As I navigate my way through this life... When I look in the mirror, I see someone who can more accurately define whom she is--by learning more about whom she is not.
Personally, I've never liked looking in the mirror, and still don't, because it's a constant reminder to me that I am "different" and that I have no "real" place.
Sure, I have "my identity in Christ" (as all the good church people told me while I was growing up), but as an adoptee who is a different race than her parents and has no known history of her past, I always felt like the leftover puzzle piece that doesn't fit into any puzzle.
I always envied people who were told that they look "just like their" mother, father, cousin, etc., and I've often felt an inner mourning over the fact that I will never have a known biological relative. I adore the parents who raised me, but I am very different from them, and have often wondered if I'm "like" anyone else on earth, in any given way.
Ironically, I had a friend several years ago who was an identical twin, and she felt as if she didn't fit anywhere because of the exact opposite reason--she resembled another human being so closely that she was treated as if she were the same person as her sister, and never felt as if anyone allowed her to have an identity of her own.
Because of stories like this, I always feel drawn to people who feel like they don't fit in, and especially to those who are acting out in ways that some people might not understand. My prayer for them is always, "Oh Lord, no one understands, but I know you do. Please help them, because they don't know who they are..."
As I navigate my way through this life... When I look in the mirror, I see someone who can more accurately define whom she is--by learning more about whom she is not.
Once there were two women who never knew each other.
One you do not remember, the other you call mother.
Two different lives, shaped to make your one...
One became your guiding star, the other became your sun.
The first gave you life and the second taught you to live it.
The first gave you a need for love, and the second was there to give it. One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name.
One gave you a seed of talent, the other gave you an aim.
One gave you emotions, the other calmed your fears.
One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried your tears.
One gave you up ... that’s all she could do.
The other prayed for a child and God led her straight to you.
And now you ask me, through your fears,
the age old question unanswered throughout the years...
Heredity or environment, which are you the product of?
Neither, my darling neither.
Just two different kinds of love.
~ Author Unknown ~
*sigh*...Seriously, you people...lol. Okay. I said that I was gonna post my unblurred face in the Speak Your Mind thread, but I think I might as well post this here...
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!
(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise
Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
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*sigh*...Seriously, you people...lol. Okay. I said that I was gonna post my unblurred face in the Speak Your Mind thread, but I think I might as well post this here...
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!
(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise
Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
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It wasn't me was it as I've used the little star thing two or three times now I know what it does. Can't remember who I put reps about. No idea why I want to see your face though. I'm sure you look nice and all that... How would using the rep thing expose ones face anyway? Do people use it for camera access or something? Think I'm missing some sort of detail here I dont know about.
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*sigh*...Seriously, you people...lol. Okay. I said that I was gonna post my unblurred face in the Speak Your Mind thread, but I think I might as well post this here...
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!
(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise
Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
my son recently visited my aunt, whom he hadn't seen in 10 years.
she called me afterward, and kept telling me what a handsome kid he is. (and he is)
she followed it up with, and he doesn't look like either you or Mark.
um....
to me, he looks like his dad, and more importantly, he 'looks' like Jesus.
she called me afterward, and kept telling me what a handsome kid he is. (and he is
)she followed it up with, and he doesn't look like either you or Mark.
um....
to me, he looks like his dad, and more importantly, he 'looks' like Jesus.
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*sigh*...Seriously, you people...lol. Okay. I said that I was gonna post my unblurred face in the Speak Your Mind thread, but I think I might as well post this here...
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!
(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
Boom. There you go. No photo editing whatsoever! I have successfully fulfilled my promise
Now I can go back to posting quality anime meme trash on here!(Yes, I am in a hotel. I'm currently staying in Batam, Indonesia.)
