October 17, 2022

A classic headline from The Onion: “Picture Most Closely Resembling Actual Self Immediately Deleted.”

Monica Arquette is quoted as saying, “God, I hate this one,” said Arquette, promptly wiping from her phone’s memory the most authentic photo of her currently in existence, both in representing her physical form and in capturing her overall essence as a person. “I look so weird. Not a chance I’m showing this hideous thing to anyone.”

We read in Hebrews that wiping memory is a waste of time. “No one can hide from God. His eyes see everything we do.” (Hebrews 4:13). And everything we are. Fortunately for us, He sees us as people who have already been made perfect by the blood of Christ.

“O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Proper 12 – BCP)