Large Mirror in the Hall

Pause, gaze and reflect! This youthful image! (Can it be? Is is true?)

Putrid masks shed - - squalid seas of stupor sink,

Gauzed wounds of sin now healed - - each ache and pain sold for penny scars of vices;

A free man’s posture, poise and joy,

Poisoned past with penance, tempered waist with fasting, waste trimmed, and chaste,

Plan of life to live daily, Adoration, self-oblation,

Temptation tried; live, liberated constitution,

Man, mindful of mystery - - stately, sturdy, fit;

Wise with words of wisdom, withstanding

Fads of passing fancy - - friends, stable family;

Clean, that clouded glass a ghastly image of the past,

Clean you’ve died to self - - and the self you see is Christ!

Gary Edward Geraci

“It’s now no longer I that live but Christ lives in me.” Galatians 2:20