How
many people really know who you are? In other words how
many folks have you let know the real you? Did that raise
your blood pressure a few degrees? It used to raise mine
quite a few numbers when I was having a hard time simply figuring out
who I was!!
Let
me say this first,.........All of us have things buried so deep in
out closets that we would rather die that have them found out.
Most of us have been telling lies about certain situations that
we have actually convinced ourselves that we are telling the truth.
More than likely we have got so good at certain lies that even the
professionals couldn't detect that we are lying if their life
depended on it!!
I
hope everybody realizes that the only things that we tell other
people about ourselves is exactly what we want them to know. Now, if
you offended by that, please allow me to say it in a little
different,......... less offensive way. All the folks that you will
ever meet in your lifetime will only tell you what the want you to
know about themselves. Did that take a bit of the sting out of
the truth?
Do
you still think that you need a little proof that I am not just
making this up? If you can't get the proof by using yourself as
the best example. Then what you really need to do is draw three rings
around your feet with colorful pieces of chalk. Then start hoping up,
and down wildly, screaming at the top of your lungs this little
chant: “De-nial isn't just a river in Egypt!!” Do that until you
pass out, or fall from the chalk circles from laughing so hard!!
Either way,.... I am through pickin' on you......Al least for now.
How
many times have you and one of the people inside your life been talking
with each other, and out of the blue,.......Either heard, or made
this statement. Do you remember way back then,......When I told
you.......Blah, Blah, Blah. Yeah,.....I remember that.
Well,.....It was not exactly true. The truth was.......Blah, Blah.Blah. I really
didn't mean to lie to you. I just didn't know you that well then.
Blah, Blah, Blah
More
than likely the two of y'all tightened the already growing bond
between you, and simply laughed it off together. That's how we become
real friends over time. We have at least one goal in common that
starts the attraction. Then over time they become more, or less, and
the relationship either blossoms, or doesn't do all that well. Some
of them just die, but that is still OK. That is what makes us
different. Different strokes for different folks!!
I
have come to find out for myself that nobody didn't really know me.
Why? Because I didn't even know who the heck that I was!!
I had so much pain pressing down on the inside of me that I
rarely told much of the truth. I was ashamed of what I had become,
and of the things that had happened in my life. Not all of these
things were my fault, but most of them were. I take responsibility
for my actions of the past today, and try to help others to not to
have to live in the misery that I chose to exist inside.
I
really am a project under-construction, and the Master Carpenter is
Jesus Christ!! He is Magnificent!! I think if I would
have been Him I would have just took me out, and said that I only
made one mistake!! I was,........ and still am a complete mess!!
He is slowly cleaning me up a little each day. He is truly
a God of Wonders!!
I
still have some crucial points to over come, but by golly they are
slowly coming around. I have heard that it is an inside
job,..........And honestly I can see that now. I just want
to share a small thing, and then I will go for now.
I
was scared to give anything up, because I thought that I need
everything that I had to make me what I was. Trust me,......I
said a mouthful that time. (1) The truth is that Jesus will not
ask you to give up anything that you actually need. (2) He will not
ask you to give up anything that He will not replace with something
better. (3) Jesus will not take anything that you don't ask Him to
take, and He will not play tug of war with it either!!
…..............Much love
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