So, this is what new looks like (standard:humor, 903 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jan 06 2013	Views/Reads: 2438/1787	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
It was just before New Year’s and the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I were relaxing after a busy week of toil and labor. Not paying much attention to my surroundings, I had immersed myself in a favorite book.

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terrific. There was a bounce in my step, a giggle on my tongue; I was 
feeling like I was 20 something. I had not felt this good since I 
cannot remember how long. Then it happened. 

No matter how good you might feel some day, there is always something or
someone who can undermine that and put you in your proper place. 

My mistake was going into the bathroom. There in the bathroom for all
the world to see, especially me is this ghastly object called a mirror. 
When I looked into the mirror, I was shocked to see I was not alone. I 
thought I had come into the bathroom by myself but there in the mirror 
was this old guy I hardly recognized. 

My first reaction was to ask him to leave the bathroom and then I
noticed something. That person in the mirror was me! All of those 
exhilarating feelings dissipated as reality grabbed hold of my soul and 
soundly shook me. 

In my Bible reading that morning, I read what the apostle Paul said.
“And be renewed in the spirit of your minds; and that she put on the 
new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” 
(Ephesians 4:23-24 KJV). 

Only God, in His wisdom, can create in me something that is truly new. 


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