NEW CREATION

My mirrored reflection:

is that truly me?

Vaguely familiar, but changed.

I am not who I was

or yet who I hope to be

but the joy of completion

satisfaction, fulfillment

untasted before has begun

to work itself out in me.

My body, mind, and soul

awakened from slumber at last

embrace a full release.

My spirit has stretched beyond

what I ever dreamed.

Nothing of man could effect

this awesome transformation:

God’s love within shines somehow

through my mortal veil of flesh.

In Christ I am created new and whole.

Before, my soul was incomplete, a fragment.

Now I begin to reflect my Master although imperfectly

by bearing the likeness of Christ in me.

His lordship undisputed has flooded me within

with life and love

and glows now through my members

with warmth and radiance

so that the transfigured image in my inner spirit

unseen in my mirror, is His, not mine.

---by Leona Choy