Don't we want other people around us to be positive, happy, and joyful!
Of course we do! God calls us to be joyful and to rejoice in HIM!
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4:4
I have had a couple of discussions with close friend's about the persona that can be on display in our lives. Our new technology of face book status can indicate that we are doing amazing and all is good. When in fact, we are struggling just to make it through the day. it's a challenge, but I try to me forth right in my status. Which is hard, because when someone doesn't like or comment it leaves the sting of feeling alone or some times even unliked. There is some thing about that feeling that is very bothersome to me. I struggle with rejection and at times I even wonder why I am on face book because I'm just setting myself up to be rejected daily! Hence, I have many close family and friend's that don't even bother with it. It's also bothersome to me that I haven't been able to totally disconnect form it because I get acceptance from having my pages. That is not something that is easy to admit! I can say that I have a wound from not being accepted that needs healed and maybe face book helps that wound not hurt so much! I'm just not sure it's healing the wound either, but rather keeping it open for more pain.
In a previous post I talked about tempering what is going on in our lives depending on the people we are surrounded by. We don't want to just throw up our emotional turmoil on everyone. Yet, I have to take a minute and remind myself that posting a false persona on face book is a lie. A false sense of who I am! It's not helping get through what ever it is that I am being challenged with nor is it giving a realistic view of my humanness. I am not some kind of super woman that is always handling everything with perfection. In full admittance I used to strive for that and wanted that for myself. Thanks to the Lord, I have seen the devastation of that lie and have been freed to live in GRACE! I am joyful in the Lord because HE saved me and gives me strength daily to meet the challenges I am faced with. BUT, I can be sad and have feelings. I am in a stage of life right now that has many challenges. With those challenge has come hurt! Some of these things are really crushing to me. While I can not give details to the whole wide world. I believe it is appropriate to ask for prayer! Maybe if every status on face book I wrote for the next month said, "PRAYER!" It would indicate that my hardships are real and valid! I don't want to overwhelm my "Friend's" on face book with all my troubles...I don't want to be fake either. I think there is a balance to be real and genuine rather than making it seem like my life is perfect! This has really been on my heart, can you tell! Maybe you have been thinking this too...can you relate?
When, we are going through hardship it's hard to not want to seem strong. At least for me. Yet, there are times when the hardship can really take you down and God is working on us and molding us. It hurts. I'm not giving permission for us to grump around and be negative. It's a challenge to be REAL, honest and caring towards others! Yet, that what we need to be to one another! We can't not get through this life alone! - Shannon
1 Peter 1:6-7
New International Version (NIV)
6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Isaiah 64:8 Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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