I am looking at her picture,
but she doesn't exist. Not that she has disappeared. She just never was. I came
across her picture in one of the files I had in my attic. Whenever I say "my
attic" I expect to hear the theme from the "Twilight Zone."That's how bad it is.
I should say "was." I just ventured into it over the weekend and began to
clear it out. That's when I found her. Back in the Fall of 1993, Time Magazine
published a picture of a woman on their cover. She wasn't "woman of the year,"
or some famous actress.
Next to her picture are these words..."Take a good
look at this woman. She was created by a computer from a mix of several
races." That was enough for me to purchase a copy. I actually spent hours just
looking at her because she looked so real. The thought that she never existed
and all rational thought of how she was created by a computer, made no
difference to me. Over the years I forgot where I put this magazine. I
wanted to share it with others but couldn't find it in "The Attic!"
Can you hear the music? 17 years later she
reappears. Now I remember why I was so intrigued by her. I see her in a
different way. I believe there are two of me. The person I am and the
person I could be. One exists and the other is imagined. The truth is, in order
for me to become that other me I need to create it in my mind. Otherwise it will
never be. It is the image of me that God sees and exists only in the
possibility that I see it, too. The difference is...she never was and never will
be. I am and I can be all that God sees in me. In the end will God's image of me
exist? That's really up to me.
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