Sunday, March 13, 2022
Sunday Reflection: How we see ourselves
I'm curious about this portrait, which hangs at the Minnesota Institute of Arts. Did this lady commission the portrait? Was she happy with how it turned out? Does it matter to her that she seems a little... crabby?
We all have a self-image that is, at best, partly right. I've known people who are least confident about the things they are best at, and other who are convinced they are great at something where... they're not. And, at times, I have fit into both groups.
I've always struggled with the idea that we are made in the image of God. That can't mean literally-- that we look like God. Of course, though, Christ did look like us. But I don't think it refers to anything that shallow-- just physical appearance. It must be something deeper, connected to an identity we can never quite place. Do you know that feeling, that there is a part of you that you don't know? Perhaps it is that-- the unknowable within us.
