Wow, I stink at updating this. I need to get better than once a month. What's really bad is that I think of things every day I'd like to blog about, but when I have time to sit down & actually do it, I've forgotten what those things were.
Tonight I had a conversation with an acquaintance that I knew many years ago. In the course of our catching up conversation, she mentioned some very specific ways that I had impacted her life in a positive way. That absolutely blew me away. I knew her at a time in my life when I could not have felt more invisible. Thinking back to that time, there isn't a single person I would name that I impacted, good or bad. We had just moved to Tennessee. I was depressed, lonely, and WAY out of place. I was a young newlywed with a baby and another one on the way. I didn't look, talk or act like anyone here. I wanted to ask her if she had me confused with someone else.
We all feel invisible at times. We don't measure up. We aren't doing anything important. Nobody sees or hears us. We feel like nothing we say or do matters. We need to always remember that, even when we aren't aware of it, people are watching. They are listening. What they see or hear can impact their life positively or negatively for a long time. So often I forget that. I confess that I say & do things that don't honor Christ or other people. I pray that I will always be mindful that people are watching. They, and the Lord, deserve my best.
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I have felt invisible most of my life, but I'm good at invisible. It is quite humbling though when we do meet up with a person whose life we did impact in whatever smalll way.
Sometimes I am totally blown away by how God has used me when I wasn't even aware.
You are correct, they and the Lord do deserve our best.
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