Mirror

Hey everyone, I wrote "Mirror" as a simple reminder about the power of letting go. It's about how choosing forgiveness and dropping old grudges clears your heart—like wiping dust off a mirror

## Mirror

Look inside.

See how clearly the heart can reflect

the beauty that lives in everything else.

Step away from the judgments of the day,

from the heavy arguments and the old labels,

and just feel the quiet stillness of this breath.

When you clear away the dust of yesterday's pain,

and the thick smoke of old grievances,

you see the world as it truly was meant to be.

This is the forgiving heart.

It does not hold onto the shadows of what went wrong.

It does not keep a record of the wounds.

It lets the old hurts wash clean in the river,

leaving a surface so pure, so calm, and so still,

that anyone who looks at you

sees their own hidden goodness reflected right back.

We spend so much of our lives carrying the weight of anger.

We look through the cracked lens of our past betrayals,

seeing enemies where there are only wounded souls,

forgetting that what we project is what we live.

You are not defined by the dirt that fell on your name.

You are the light that shines right through the dust.

So let the heavy grudges slip into the water.

Let the mirror of your mind be completely clear.

Look at the world around you with fresh eyes.

You are seeing with the eyes of grace.

You are rendering the world beautiful.

*— Written by Eldridge Brown*