Sometimes when I see things like this my mind immediately goes to the scene in Anger Management where Jack Nicholson asks Adam Sandler who he really is, and all of his answers seem to fall short. A description of me shouldn't entail all of the things that I do, or where I work, or even things that I like, but more of who I am. So to be a bit more concise as verbosity is apparently my weakness, I'm a follower of Christ. I'd hope that's all you need to know.
Comparison. Jealousy. Inadequacy. A chain of events that plagues my heart. But how the Lord shines light in this dark place.
Listen.
You will never be:
the most beautiful girl
the smartest girl
the funniest girl
the most put-together girl
the most athletic girl
the most adventurous girl
the BEST girl… isn’t you.
BUT you are beautiful and smart and funny and put together and athletic and adventurous. You are YOU. And THAT is the most beautiful thing to be.
So thankful that the Lord is reminding me of my worth in His sweet sweet Love.
For some reason today I’ve been pondering marriage. Marriage and society in particular. I think marriage is one of the most wonderful things that a person can live out. To live out a successful marriage surely must be a difficult, but terribly rewarding on-taking. But I think we have a problem. When we think of marriage, we think of weddings. To me, that’s just wrong. Not that I hate weddings, I think they’re beautiful and wonderful and glorious and should be emphasized. Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding. I approve of weddings. But I don’t approve of letting the fantasy stop there. Society as a whole hangs up on the wedding, and then finds marriage later as an afterthought. Surely that isn’t how it should be. When I think of the person that I’m going to marry, I don’t want to think of the person that I’m going to see at the end of the aisle, or even the person that I want to wake up next to in the morning. That all of that seems so trivial. I want to think of the person that I’m going to see in a good mood, a bad mood, angry, overjoyed, stressed, and grateful in day-to-day life for my remaining years. I guess I just want the same for everyone else. Focusing on life, not a one time celebration.
These are good days.
