<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(84, 130, 53);">Mirror Image</span></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(84, 130, 53); background-color: white;"> </span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by Greta Zwaan<br><br><span style="background-color: white;">We spend so much of our income in our quest to impress those we know;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We often go over budget and find that our funds are too low.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We have to keep up with the Jones's, or better still, one step ahead;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We must not be known as failures - horrendous! The thing that we dread.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">We strive so hard for improvements that billions of dollars are spent,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Cosmetically we try enhancements as if they were heaven's scent!</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We buy all the latest inventions, creams, gels, even sprays</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">To grow the hair, improve the skin, as if they'd lengthen our days.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">We love to eat, and then diet; our minds are consumed with our weight;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We pamper our appearance to man, this image we try to create.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Consider this: God's approval; or does He not enter the plan?</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Is it naught that He's the Creator in charge of each breath of man?</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">He's been shoved aside for "perfection," His power we do not discuss,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We know our wants and our pleasures, delighting in what's best for us.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We don't see the path of destruction, nor the ruin we surely will face,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">This journey will lead to disaster; this road is the path of disgrace.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">It's time we changed our direction, it's time to set our hearts free,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">It's time to change our allegiance, to take our eyes off "just me."</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">We have a purpose for living, but not what the mirror reveals,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">The skin, the hair or the figure only answer to worldly appeals.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">It's God who looks on the inside, who tests where the heart ought to be,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">It's God who brings satisfaction, who you, your true self to see.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And though the picture's not pretty, mostly it's all disarray,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">God is still able to cleanse us, to start us on a new way.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Forget what you see in the mirror, go deeper and check out the heart;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">You'll find a new way of living, as the old desires depart.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>