The Girl in the Other Room*

When I was a little girl, I would sometimes look into the mirror - not at myself per se - but into the other room. The girl (myself) would be the girl in the other room. It was a room where everything was 'backward' or 'opposite'. I would imagine what life was like in that room. How was it different? In a similar way, sometimes I would lie on my back and imagine what it would be like if the ceiling was the floor. What would that be like? It would still be my house, just different.

Do you ever have dreams about houses? I do, fairly frequently. Psychologists will tell you that in dreams, houses (as well as cars ) are metaphors for the self. Sometimes I dream that I'm in my house - only there are rooms I didn't realize were there. Usually, they're really fantastic rooms - rooms that I'd like to live in all the time, if only I could remember how to get there... I wonder if these dreams are related to the 'other room' in the mirror.

I suspect that there is one way that they're related. We all know on some level (Christians in a very specific way) that there is more to life and reality than meets the eye. There's also more to us than appearances suggest. The truth is, there are many 'other rooms' where things are even more 'real' than the rooms we normally inhabit. Sometimes (like in our dreams or imaginations) we get an inkling of some part of that reality. Occasionally, God chooses to give us a glimpse of His Kingdom. Sometime God chooses to give us a glimpse of ourselves as we really are - or are becoming. Either way it's a glimpse of glory.