25 Things I Don't Want You To Know About Me

Did you hurry to this post after reading title? ;)

#1 right off the bat. . .I'm stealing the list idea from someone else.

In the blogging world, it seems like I read a lot about the good stuff. . .which is good. . .it's inspiring and I would like to be inspiring myself.  I read about people homeschooling their little darlings( which I did), exercising (which I did), eating organic foods (which I didn't), having quiet times every single morning( at times yes, and at times no), and on and on and on.  Wouldn't it be great sometimes to just open up the door, (or here it would be the screen) and just be really real?  We all know that none of us are perfect and I'm going to prove that right now by attempting to show you 25 things that I do not want you to know about me ( because we all really want to know those things, don't we?)  and hope by the end you all will still like me. . .here goes!  (Deep breath)

#2.   Sometimes I sleep in during the week
#3.   I sometimes sneak chocolate candy in the night
#4.   My ceiling fans have way more dust than they should have
#5.   Sometimes when my husband is talking to me, I am daydreaming
#6.   I trip all the time. . .over nothing!
#7.   I've let food stay in my fridge until it became unrecognizable
#8.   I still have some clothes in my closet from the 90's
#9.   Sometimes I walk into rooms and don't know why I went there
#10.  I get tired of people sometimes
#11.  I'm not very smart
#12.  I can't read a map
#13.  I talk out loud sometimes. . .when there is no one else around
#14.  I can just sit and ponder and do nothing else
#15.  When I dry and style my hair, I use three different hair brushes
#16.  I like to think I'm not vain, but I think maybe I am
#17.  I don't shave my legs every day
#18.  Sometimes when praying at night, I will fall asleep before finishing
#19.  When my husband snores too loud and long, I go sleep in the other bedroom
#20.  I'm 50 years old and I still get pimples
#21.  I have arugued with God
#22.  I have a prodigal
#23.  Sometimes when you see me smiling, it's a cover up
#24.  I look completely different underneath the make-up
#25.  I can't write (Oh, you may already know that one)

There ya go folks, I'm not perfect.  None of us are.  I'm sure some of you could say is that all, you should see MY list.  Isn't it great that God does not keep a list.  No matter what is on our list of what we wouldn't want people to know, God already does.  And you know what?  He still thinks we believers, His children, are the cat's meow, the flowers in the field, the redeemed, renewed, masterpiece of His work, His beloved child. He loves us just because we are His. 

So what if your legs aren't shaved, if you burp 20 times a day, you stay up too late, you ate one too many bags of candy, your family is not perfect, you don't homeschool, you don't say "Yes" to every request made of you, you fill in the blank.  God sees us believers through His Son Jesus Christ and that can only mean that he sees us as holy as His Son is holy.  When you look in the mirror, don't just see the pimples or the flaws you think you see on the inside.  See yourself as a child of the Most Holy One, dearly loved, worth dying for.  We are beautiful! We've been draped in His love, grace and mercy. We are soaked in His salvation. We are washed by the blood of Jesus Christ and clothed in His righteousness!  We are HIS! Now that all that has been said, forget the list and be free to be who God made you to be.

And please feel free to forget my list too ;)

Now for a more fun kind of list. . .

~Blessings~

#1147.  a Savior who doesn't keep lists

1148.  chocolates in  cupboards

1149.  furniture polish to swipe away the dust. . .(eventually)

1150.   food in the fridge. . .(the fresh, edible kind)

1151.  updated (I think) clothes
1152. Hope House. . .a place to take the clothes from closet

1153.  naps. . .so I can like people again

1154.  smart husband who doesn't laugh when I ask dumb questions

1155.  time to just sit and ponder

1156.  pants to hide those unsightly legs

1157.  an extra bedroom when needed

1158.  cream for those dreaded little bumps on the face

1159.  hope and grace and love for the prodigal

1160.  that I'm able to smile when I don't really feel like it
1161.  for the joy in my heart despite what the enemy would throw at me

1162.  make-up for this face of mine

1163.  forgiveness for those times when I mess up

1164.  the security and joy of knowing I am His
1165. knowing it's not about me and ALL about Him
1166. hearing from Him that I don't have to be a writer, just a sharer of my heart in writing and that if anything good comes of it, it is ALL from HIM
1167. courage from my Lord
1168. a brand new day every morning

1169.  knowing there will be a #1170 coming soon

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