Job 14:1-2

We seek to be a reflection

Of all that you were then.

You lived the model we should live

When you walked among men.

But we most often fail to show

The mercy we are shown

And our reflection is less clear

Than that grace we have known.

We are truly more like shadows

Than a reflected light

And though, in form, we’re much like you

We never quite shine bright.

But with that failing understood

There’s one thing that’s still true

Even as a mere silhouette

I’m glad I shadow you

Job 14: 1-2

 1 “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.
2 They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.