dailydatewithgod

We all try really hard to put on a good face.  I am not sure exactly what it is that drives us to think that we need to cover up our flaws.  It seems like so much more work.  We only allow certain parts of ourselves to be seen and yet we seem surprised when we find out things about other people that we never knew.  No one can keep up the facade forever.  If we all have flaws, what makes us think it is so important to hide them?  Perhaps it is the judgment we see for those around us who are not able to hide their flaws so easily. We fear we will experience the same thing.  Yet how many of us have grown because of our flaws?  How many of us have found ourselves in situations we would not have planned but turned out to be presented with an opportunity we would not have imagined otherwise?  We don’t think of these things when we are busy covering ourselves up.  I am guilty of this just as much as anyone.  I do not walk around touting about being an incest or obesity survivor.  I do not broadcast the fact that I almost failed out of college at the end of my freshman year.  I certainly don’t tell the people in my yoga class that I can’t hold the poses using my abdominal muscles for the length of the exercise.  It is actually quite comical that we spend so much time working to cover things up only to have them revealed when we least expect it.  Depending on what we consider our flaws to be we then have to go through the process of  admitting them to the people close to us.  The real kicker is that most of the time they already knew what our flaws were to begin with!  It seems like a waste of energy.  God looks at our growth process.  God is not concerned with how many flaws we have, though she doesn’t see them as flaws.  He wants us to use the all the gifts we have been given to grow in love.  Even the gifts we call flaws.  Deep down even we know they are gifts.  Why else would we spend so much time wrapping them up?