Microscope (work in progress)

Flawed beyond recognition
Who am I?
Reflections don't speak to the deep within.

Where do I find you?
I've been searching far too long
I've lost touch of where my soul belongs

Am I found in You?
Or do you love but not know me?
Like the rest, is it just this mask that you see?

Take the spotlight off me,
This self-serving microscope
Help me look to You for my everlasting hope.

A Meditation

Here is a meditation that was shared to me that I have found freeing.

A Meditation by Cardinal Newman

God has created me
to do him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me
which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission -
I may never know it in this life,
but I shall be told of it in the next.

I am a link in a chain,
a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for naught,
I shall do good,
I shall do his work.
I shall be an angel of peace,
a preacher of truth
in my own place
while not intending it -
if I do but keep
His Commandments.

Therefore, I will trust Him.
Whatever, wherever I am,
I can never be thrown away.
If I am in sickness,
my sickness may serve Him;
in perplexity,
my perplexity may serve Him;
if I am in sorrow,
my sorrow may serve Him.
He does nothing in vain.
He knows what He is about.
He may take away my friends.
He may throw me among strangers.
He may make me feel desolate,
make my spirits sink,
hide my future from me -
still He knows
what He is about.