Just be you!

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I have never really been out to a please people, but really more after about the age of 24-now as I have chosen to focus on deeper goals and things that really matter.


I have seen it through my eyes based on the lives of others that it is true that people will forget the 10 million good things you have done and fault you for the one. People will always be people whether there is fault to find or not.  And beyond that, I am no dummy to realize that it would not be any different for me under the right circumstances.
So I just choose to love as God has loved me but I am very careful to those who I surround myself with. Honestly, I rather have a small circle of real people than a huge circle of phony ones.

It is even more evident in today's world of social media where people will blast someone on a viral post. They will comment, "I would never do that." They are stupid. I always knew they were A, B, and C back then." All in the while I'm thinking, 'Be quiet you didn't know nothing'.

We take so much time bashing people instead of trying to lift them up that it is ridiculous.
We live in a world of hypocrites who believe others can't fall in the midst of their own struggles.

But the question is:

What would your viral story look like if it was exposed? or
What would your life have looked like if you weren't rescued by grace?

I want you to remember today that people don't define your story. You have the choice of how you handle things and where you put your choices.  You can either live a life of wisdom or defeat.

I am grateful that I have allowed God to define my story even though I haven't always done it right and will continue to make some mistakes.

Artist Tauren Hills says it best when he says,

 "On the mountains, I will bow my life
To the One who set me there
In the valley, I will lift my eyes
To the One who sees me there

When I'm standing on the mountain
I didn't get there on my own
When I'm walking through the valley
I know I am not alone!"

God is always with me. He doesn't leave me alone in the valley, but at the mountain tops I shouldn't forget how I got there. My life is not defined by the riches or lack of. I am the hands and feet of a God who truly loves all of us.

So if we are not the voice and hands of compassion then who will be.