Real Talk

There are days, like my day today, when your character will be questioned.

Your heart will ache because you were perceived as something other than what you thought you were.

You will wonder, and question, if the perception is true.

"Am I really that way?"

"Am I really that person?"

"Do I really act like that?"

You will mull it over, around and around, again and again in your head.

The sorrow in your heart will continue to pain you & the lump in your stomach will grow heavier & heavier.

And on those days, in those very moments, you will have one of two decisions to make -

1. You can allow those moments to eat at you from the inside...feeding your insecurities...causing you to doubt your identity...devastating your whole day.

or

2. You can make the tough, conscious decision to let those moments grow you. You can take those comments, give them to our Father & ask HIM to do the mulling. Ask HIM to give you direction on what parts of those characteristics are true, if any, & ask for HIM to show you how to change those characteristics.

Above all else, remembering that your identity does not lay in the hands of others is the single most important thing you can do to maximize the most growth. Even if the LORD reveals that those characteristics are accurate, remembering that you are not your mistakes, you are not meant to be perfect and that you will forever be GOD's child, full of HIS power, HIS strength & HIS very breath & image are the ingredients you need to shut out the voices & aid yourself in your healing.

There will be moments - yes, MORE moments - when you are misunderstood.

Don't be victim to those moments.

It is in your weakness that HE is made stronger.

When HE is made stronger,

you are replenished & you are rejuvenated.