“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.”

— Ken S. Keyes , Jr.
How would it change the way we live today if we looked at others as though they were mirrors of our own humanity?  What do you see when you look in the mirror?
Another week begins today, and each of us will venture out into a world filled with all sorts of people.  Each person we meet will mirror something we know, or need to know, about ourselves.  How can we hope to love the people we encounter if they mirror qualities about ourselves that we cannot acknowledge, accept, or forgive?  It is a humbling experience to look into the mirror of our fellow travelers.  How different might the world become if when we are angry we look in the mirror and find the piece of our own humanity that needs to be forgiven?  How different might the world become if we looked long enough into the mirror of others to find the pieces that we love about ourselves?
As yourself this week what it is about the people you meet that touches the pieces of you that call you to sadness, to anger, to fear, or to joy.  Then consider what others might see when they look in the mirror of you.  What do you want to reflect into the world when someone comes to gaze into your looking glass?  If each of us could be conscious of the things we reflect to others, we might discover that there are wonderful aspects of humanity that we share — things that uplift us and encourage us to me more than we are.  Let us reflect these things into our world this week and see how its image shifts as we gaze into the mirror.  Let us be the reflection of Love that has called us all to be divinely human.