An Encounter With The Man In The Mirror

I find myself watching the Gospel Music Channel occasionally and, on a recent foray ran smack dab into a song the Oak Ridge Boys were singing.

It smacked me in the face and caused me to look in the mirror.  I was both ashamed and discouraged at the answers to the questions.

DID I MAKE A DIFFERENCE

I’m caught up in the push and shove:
The daily grind, burning times, spinning wheels;

I wonder what I’m doing here;
Day to day, year to year, standing still.

Somewhere there’s a teacher with a heart that never quits;
Staying after school to help some inner city kids;
A mother who’s a volunteer;  a soldier in the fight;
I can’t help but ask myself when I lay down at night.

Did I make a difference in somebodies life;
What hurts did I heal;
What wrongs did right;
Did I raise my voice in defense of the truth;
Did I lend my hand to the destitute;
When my race is won, when my song is sung;
Will I have to wonder;
Did I make difference;
Did I make a difference.

I’ve been working hard to make a living;
And forgetting what true living is;

Taking more than giving;  somethings missing;
Lord, How can I go on like this;

There’s a lonely old man down the street…and I should be ashamed;
Ive never been to see him, I don’t even know his name;
There’s kids without their supper in my own neighborhood;
Will I look back someday and say I did all I could.

Did I make a difference in somebodies life;
What hurts did I heal;
What wrongs did right;
Did I raise my voice in defense of the truth;
Did I lend my hand to the destitute;
When my race is won, when my song is sung;
Will I have to wonder;
Did I make difference;
Did I make a difference.

When my race is won, when my song is sung;
Will I have to wonder;
Did I make difference;
Did I make a difference.
When my race is won, when my song is sung;
Will I have to wonder;
Did I make difference;
Did I make a difference.

DID I MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Sung by: the Oak Ridge Boys
Music and Lyrics By: Rob Cosby and Bill Anderson

Upon reflection, while I should be ashamed…I have found hope.  Like Ebenezer Scrooge, the reality I faced in the mirror  were images that May be true, not images that MUST be true.  There is hope.

These are, after all, the musings of a mind that wanders.