Facebook…. Instagram….blogging…. YouTube….there are so many ways to be “seen” in our world today.

There are so many ways to be rejected by our world…

so many ways to feel less than in our world…..

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10 NIV

HE knew who HE wanted us to be before we were born. we are uniquely gifted to do the job HE has for us to do….It may be smiling at someone, changing 20 diapers, driving jr. high kids to youth group, loving your husband well,  helping with homework, giving your neighbor a ride, leading a Bible study or writing a book. ALL ARE ETERNALLY IMPORTANT. The most important thing you will do today will not be “post-able”… I promise.

I am a married mom of 5 and I STILL feel the pressure to show the world “post-able” moments to make me feel VISIBLE, IMPORTANT, REAL…My heart breaks for all of us who feel that when we don’t get enough “likes”  we are not

LIKED!

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR KIDS?!?!?!

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OURSELVES?!?!?!?!

Here’s the deal, we were never meant to compete with the entire world for attention and approval. we are not all supposed to be famous, talented, funny, beautiful, rich or briliant…..we just aren’t!

I know that everywhere we turn we are told that we are to reach for the stars, be all that we can be, if you work hard enough you can do ANYTHING, be ANYTHING. It is just not true. I am a 47-year-old woman, I will never be a pro football player, I will never have a 21-year-old body again and I will most likely never be in a Hallmark movie or write a best seller….. (although I have not given that one up completely :-))

BUT SERIOUSLY

I want to be

CONTENT

I love this story of a king who went into his garden one morning and found everything withered and dying. He asked the oak that stood near the gate what the trouble was. He found it was sick of life and determined to die because it was not tall and beautiful like the pine. The pine was all out of heart because it could not bear grapes like the vine. The vine was going to throw its life away because it did not have as fine fruit as the peach tree; and so on all through the garden. Coming to a heart’s-ease, he found its bright face lifted, as cheery, as ever.  “Well, heart’s-ease, I’m glad, amidst all this discouragement, to find one brave little flower. You do not seem to be the least disheartened.” “No I am not of much of account, but I thought that if you wanted an oak, or a pine, or a peach tree, or a lilac, you would have planted one; I knew you wanted a heart’s-ease, I am determined to be the best little heart’s-ease that I can.”

So….I am going to look to the CREATOR for my identity rather than the created. Believing that HE knows what HE is doing.

I am going to be the very best Cyndi I can be…