When Moses gathered the children of Isreal together to begin working on the tabernacle, he
called upon Bezalel, a gifted artisan to help make the furnishings. It was said that certain women were asked to give thier
precious bronze mirrors to make the bronze basin he was constructing. The women gave them up to help prepare a place where
God's presence would reside.
These days if people were asked to give up thier mirrors that would be hard to do. We are
not asked to do it but it makes me think about how too much scrutiny and self examination can be disconcerting. It makes us
think too much of ourselves and not enough about others.
When we can forget about our own faces quickly and remember that God loves us as we are- in
all of our imperfections- then we can begin to "look out not only for our own interests, but also for the interest of others".
Augustine said that we get lost in loving ourselves but found in loving others. In other words,
the secret to happiness is not getting our face right but giving our hearts away, giving our lives away, giving our selves
away in love.......
Story by: David Roper
Philippians 2:1-5
