826) There was a peanut and party shop near my grandparent’s house that I loved to go and visit. In addition to all the snacks, they had live monkeys in there that you could watch while the fragrance of popcorn filled the air. Another thing I enjoyed were the circus mirrors there. My grandfather would take me by the hand and we’d stand in front of each one together, laughing and laughing.

I still think of this memory from time to time and those mirrors give me an opportunity to think about reflections. In the circus mirror, it’s understandable that our reflections were skewed, yet there are some reflections that are not. In Proverbs 27:19, we are reminded that our actions (or inactions) reflect our hearts–our motives, values, priorities and more. Perhaps we need to pay more attention to these reflections rather than the one we see in a mirror.