Yesterday Bella said to me, "Mommy, I'm going to tell you the same truth I told daddy..."
I'm still not sure if the version we got was the actual truth but at least we both got "the same truth".
I was reminded of this this morning as our pastor was speaking about relationships. I wonder which truth I show people about me. I may feel like I am, as a friend use to say, "keeping it real" because I am showing everybody the same truth about myself. But is this "truth" that I have so perfected the real me? Do my friends know that I fail, daily, as a mother? Do the people I go to church with know that I really can't do it all on my own even though I have spent a life time priding myself on just that? Just because I am telling one person the same truth I tell the next doesn't mean that any of it is sincere at all. Out of the mouths of babes!
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5 comments:
Sarah, very good insight by Bella and her mother. I enjoyed this even though it was very convicting. I needed this! Thank you. Dad
Hmmm. Makes you think, doesn't it?
Sarah, This blog hits way to close to home. I have spent a lifetime being superwife/mom and now I deal with the results of my perfect life/lie. Thanks for listening so closely to your daughter that you caught her childlike words. Words that have stirred us all. Love, GG
Sarah, I have thought about this blog over and over since reading it. I loved your insight and Bella's word "the same truth" - those words are worth pondering for a long time, especially when I am being tempted to try to be things I am not meant to be. Very good (yes I see that Prophet nature coming out)
Good thought! So true, isn't it - we wear so many masks...
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