Not So Greener Grass

This past week i was talking to a parent at my job who i had just discoverd owned her own practice. She vented to me about how hard it is with young kids and some of her struggles with the panedmic. Towards the end she said something that really stood out to me and had me thinking this weeked, "it looks like you guys have it all figured out here."

In the moment my response to her was, many times it looks as though from the outside others have it all figured out and we ask ourselves what we are doing wrong, but they are really struggeling with the same things. This weekend the thought in my head has been, how many times do we walk aroud in life thinking the same thing. We look at others and think as the saying goes, the grass is greener on the other side.

Moments such as this make me look back at my testimony. For most of my childhood i lived in silence and shame because i believed i was the only one that had walked the road i had. No one in the church struggled with addiction at the age of 11, no one else was pretending to be someone they were not, and surely no one else had been running away from Jesus as long as i had. So i continued to live in shame. Then fastforawrd to the first time i ever disclosed my story, the people i thought had it all together, had walked the same road i was.

I can tell you if i had never found people that walked my road i would still be out here thinking i was the only one and living in shame. The current question in my head is how do we keep people within and outside the church from looking at us and thinking, staying silent because they believe they are the only one. The first answer i have is vulnurabilty and the second is discipelship.

It is easy to act like we have it figured out an we we were born saved within the church but once again in the past month i figured out just how important vulnerability is. Last month i joined a group at my church and even though i had found places to fit in, it was like a breath of fresh air to find a place where my story wasnt alone. This is why we need vulnerability within the church, without we will never know the person right next to you might be walikng the same road.

Second, is for those in the church not only being willing to tell our story but to walk beside someone that is walking a simular road, and lead them to Christ in the process.

We never know how much someone may need our story to keep on with theirs, and i believe that if we are in tune with Christ, He will lead us to those. So tonight i challege you to sit back and let God lead.