dailydatewithgod

It is believed we all walk around with masks.  We have these various veneers which overlay who we really are.  We experience proof of our trustworthiness when someone is willing to remove the veneer and show us who they truly are. Correspondingly we indicate to someone how much we trust them when we remove our veneer or at least allow them to peer behind the curtain. Sometimes we do not realize how much we have allowed someone into our hearts until we find ourselves not keeping up our veneer unintentionally.  Sometimes situations open us up in such a way that to go back behind the veneer would not make sense.  When we let go of the veneer we are able to breathe and be who we are. Given how many roles and responsibilities we have, multiple expectations both of others and ourselves, and a desire to simply survive we go about wearing different veneers.  Over time we start to think who we are is the veneer and lose touch with ourselves.  We struggle to trust ourselves and our own heart enough to even just be with ourselves. Some of this is adaptive evolutionary behavior and some of it is familiarity.  We can build a whole person from a veneer but the moment we come across a circumstance in life that puts wholes and cracks in the veneer we fear we are going to fall apart. And we all will have those circumstances at some points in our lives. God invites us to take the moments of cracks and wholes to peer behind the curtain of ourselves.  God encourages us to open our hearts and see with the eyes of love encased in the courage of our hearts as to what is present behind or beneath the veneer.  We can begin by being curious instead of afraid.  It is not necessary to shed all of our veneers at once or even abandon them altogether.  God invites us to dance with them and our hearts and see how we can make room for a little more of our courageous self to live on the surface of our being.