Genesis 16:13

She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Lord, You are the One

who sees me,

and in Your eyes,

I see

not a reflection of

my bodily self,

but an image of the self

You mean me to be.

For I am not a body,

I am a soul,

(or so I’ve been told.)

I am love distilled

and concentrated

by Your divine hand.

My reflection in the mirror

tells me little,

but in Your eyes,

I am fully known.

Amen.