Mirror Creek

I took this picture on a summer day, hiking with my brother, grandmother, and a few cousins on a hidden trail. This "creek" was off to the side of the trail, though it can hardly be called a creek. The water, you see, was quite stagnant. However, in reflecting the light, it becomes quite beautiful. I think it is quite an apt analogy--God is in the business of making stagnant, putrid things into splendid masterpieces, and this not in and of themselves, but because they allow themselves to be transformed in reflecting His Light.

And it is eternal love that binds the mirror with the Source, the Source with the mirror:
"One has a glimpse of a country....Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes."
-C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity