After almost a year of not writing on my blog, I have been inspired to get back to it. But I couldn’t get into Word Press. I thank God for my dear friend and tech guy, A. J.! Don’t know where I’d be without him!
Below is another unpublished post I began seven years ago. Wow! Time flies and apparently, I’ve been writing this blog for quite some time.
What’s crazy to me is the constant theme: changing into the image of God and my challenges with that.
If you’ve been with me for any length of time, you know I try my best to ‘keep things real’ and perhaps one day, long after I’m gone, these words will continue to help others along in their journey to Jesus.
This particular post is so similar to what I wrote earlier that I’m wondering, am I any closer to Truth than I was seven years ago? I believe I am, but it never hurts to circle the wagon and review life’s lessons.
May 23, 2018
Originally, I started this post in my journal with the title, “When Others Say One Thing Yet Really Mean Something Different,” but right before I sat down to write those words here on the screen, the next statement came into my head.
Real life comes from real truth and real truth sets me as well as you, the reader, FREE.
And don’t we want freedom? It ain’t no fun bein’ stuck.
I have to keep it real to be genuinely free, but let me say…
IT AIN’T EASY TO:
~eat humble pie, nor is it easy to walk in the light without having that very Light illuminate the darkness that one can easily ignore, deny or rationalize away.
But none of that is the important part. What’s key here is to see it, deal with it and move forward.
Always move forward because we are the conduit of the glory of God and our lives are daily being transformed into courageous beacons of hope for a generation of lost, searching souls.
Well, my preface being out of the way, let me begin!
As I was pondering the ORIGINAL title for this post, I see there are at least two different avenues that can be explored. There may be more, but the two that keep popping up in my life are probably the ones I need to look at. Maybe you do as well.
The first is a winding road of self-introspection. Headlights of truth beaming right into the window of my soul. The truth about me and the truth about you, the reader, that have to be reckoned with if we are to change.
Am I that individual that tells someone one thing, but in my heart and head, there’s a TOTALLY DIFFERENT conversation happening and no one hears it except God and me (and sometimes even I am unaware of my thoughts until later on!).
Do I say, ‘It’s no big deal’ or ‘no worries’ or maybe even laugh it off, but inside, I’m angry, feeling hurt or I don’t agree but rather than deal with rejection (which is the fear of man), I say nothing.
Honestly, the Bible states clearly what happens when we fear man:
“The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe” (Proverbs 29:25).
Yet, that fear drives people, me at times, to not say anything, say too much and/or basically lie.
August 9, 2025
I have no idea what the second thought was that I had seven years ago. I think for today, just pondering the headlights that beam into my soul is sufficient.
I do want to share about all the changes that have happened since Gpa came home last September, but that’ll be for another day.
Have a great weekend.
