It’s inevitable. If you don’t have one soon, you will eventually. It’s that person. You know, a friend of yours that seems to have it ALL together. Great house, great car, great spouse, great kids. And they’re the kids who always look “just so”. Matching jumpers with matching shirts and matching socks...with matching hair bows. Augh. Perfect. Just perfect. And that friend seems so...calm. So together. And she seems so spiritual...so close to God. Somehow, you figure you’ll never quite stack up.
When I was a new mom, a had a friend like that. I thought she was perfect. She was wonderful...and, at the time, I thought wonderful equaled spotless and flawless. I put her on a pedestal and figured I just wasn’t on the same playing field. She had it all together. And then it happened. I spent a few days with her at her house. Hmm. Suddenly the playing field was leveled.
It turned out my friend was very close to God (that wasn’t hard to see) but it also turned out that she was just like me. Imperfect. Trying her best to be the mom, wife, daughter, sister, and friend that God had made her to be. She was not the Martha Stewart I had built her up to be. She was...a human being. A human being connected to God and growing each day in Him. Just like me.
It’s tempting to look at others for the “how am I doing gauge”, isn’t it? The truth is when we do that, we rob ourselves and those we love of so much. We rob them of us. Of our true selves...of who God made us to be...in that moment. Be you. Don’t look to the left or to the right for approval. Look up to God...dig down into His grace, His goodness, and His truth...and grow in Him.
Growing alongside you,
Deni
Deni
