RADIANT REFLECTIONS
A man was asked, “What do you do?” “I will answer your question.” Taking his wallet from his hip pocket, he fished out a small round mirror, the size of a quarter. Then he said, “I was a small child during the war. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror. I kept the largest piece. This one. I began to play with it and became fascinated that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine — deep holes, crevices, dark closets. I kept the little mirror, and as I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child’s game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life — that I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design I do not know. With what I have, I can reflect light — truth, understanding, knowledge — into the black places in the hearts…
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