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Ever get mentally caught up in someone else's love story?
Sure, some of us women chics do, that's why chic flick romance stories are so popular.
I was reading some story about a doctor finally getting to marry his bride after being engaged for some time. I let my mind take me down a path of thinking how sweet it was, how happy they must be newly married, etc.
Then I thought, wow, I'll bet I can have an impact on how I view my own marriage just by the way I think about my marriage and my husband.
I do have a good story.
And if I sit on the humanly things about my husband, and see the qualities that are the least desirable to me, than I see him less and less of a \"knight in shining armor.\"
But what if I allowed the Lord to fix my eyes on the Godly side of my husband? A pastor at our church summed it up beautifully. Jeff is the perfect provision of a husband for me. My perfect match. And I think we make a pretty great parenting team. And I think we do a pretty good job sharing the love of Jesus to not only our family, but our friends and even strangers.
And so is my story worthy of chic flick material? Oh I definitely think so. But don't read my story, don't watch my movie, go get your own. |
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What does it mean to be truthful? Is anyone really 100 % truthful?
Are we all just a bunch of liars? After self examining my soul, I think in one way or another- that we are all liars.
It's so easy to take a story and take the truth out of it. Do we really remember accurately what someone said? The tone?
Even if you are quoting someone correctly, but dramatize the tone, I think that could be missing the truth behind what was actually spoken.
Especially if someone made you upset by what you said.
My tendency is to make the person's comments sound meaner than sometimes they were originally b/c it helps to defend my side of the story.
The Bible says \"Let your yes be yes and your no be no; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.\" and I think that sums it up fairly well. (Matthew 5:37) If you examine what you say and do, you, like me, will see areas in which we can improve on how we speak and live the truth. If you examine yourself and you don't find yourself short of living up to Jesus' standards of truth, well... I think you are lying to yourself. |
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