Live the Truth

I think I am missing out when I choose to live the way I feel that is acceptable or ordinary. So many times I feel like I have something to say and I feel so out of touch of what is acceptable and I shut down, completely. Sometimes I want to say, " I am an idiot", "I messed up BIG time", "My life is not a beautiful picture". Bad things happen all the time. These bad things are remarkably identifiable in our makeup. Do we put on a pretty face or do we bare it all? I struggle daily with vulnerability.

Daily, I am overwhelmed and exhausted and inspired.
My friends are the most generous, amazing, smart, caring, compassionate, creative people I know.
I am blessed to sit among them and share their stories. we laugh and we marvel at how tightly our hearts are knit together. These days, this relationship seems harder to build. I worry that I am not giving people my true self.

what is blogging about? relationship
facebook? relationship
MOPS? relationship
small groups and old and new friendships? relationship

woman's bible study? relationship
etc.
and guess what relationship requires?
that we are willing to make ourselves vulnerable.
period.

that we are willing to need someone else.
that we are willing to say so.
that we are willing to be hurt.
because the willingness to be vulnerable is where relationship lives.
the question is: are you willing?