"A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway."" - Christi Warner
Over my life i've had numerous friends, but over the past ten years i can acknowledge only two people outside of my wife that seem to like me in spite of....
Everyone presents a mask for society, or better yet everyone presents a face for the face they see. It is rare for us to be ourselves all the time. Primarily because we ultimately want to fit in and be accepted by our peers and friends. So we conform to the social apparatus that governs the current atmosphere. Ideally, i would act the same in my home as i would at church, or i should behave the same around my parents as i would my friends from college, but this ideal is rarely acted upon. As gray hair creep upon my face, i find my true friends are decreasing as my associates are increasing, not because others aren't friend worthy, but because i don't genuinely show my true self. That has to change.
First i've come to realize that my blemishes, wrinkles, dimples make me unique. i found that my true personality is what draws people to me. i've come to understand that God made me this way, and no matter how i look, talk, or walk God has given me a gift, and that is that i don't look like everyone and i can be myself. i've been getting better just being virg, and i'm realizing that i don't need a mask, the face God gave me is enough.
For me to have a friend, i have to be a friend, and that will be done by allow God's Gift in me shine as me!!!
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friend."
John 15:13
God is Love and He Loves you and so do i
virg
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