When my wife was in the mental hospital there were only certain days and times that visitors were allowed. The amount of time was an hour but when you are sitting across from someone you love that hour goes fast! I will never forget the first time that I went and visited. I cannot forget the smells or the uninviting room that we met in. No one seemed to be happy or want to be there, especially the staff. My wife and I sat across from each other at a table and for an hour we talked. She looked like my wife and sounded like my wife but the woman I had married seven years earlier was gone. In her eyes I saw confusion and frustration, they were cold and unwelcoming, void of joy. For an hour I stared across a table at a woman that I did not know.
You ever wake up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror and don’t recognize yourself? Sure the face and all of the features are the same but it doesn’t seem quite you. You look and sound just like you always have but your eyes they seem like they have a little less joy. You don’t recognize yourself because you don’t like what you see. You are not the same person you were, the person that you knew. When did you start to change? Was it the hidden affair? All those one night stands? The never ending partying? Long lonely nights in front of the computer? Has the fridge become your best friend? Was it all the money you now make? Or all the attention you are getting from your new 6 pack? How about that unplanned pregnancy? Or all the drugs?
I will be honest, I did not like what I saw in my wife when she was sick and I was staring at her across a table. Be honest with yourself and admit that you don’t like what you are seeing either. Maybe it is time for a change?
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James 1:23-24
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