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She Sees, She Does.

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It was a typical afternoon.  I was getting ready to head to a meeting when I decided I’d snap a picture of myself quick to show my gratitude for some great brands I was loving on.

I set up the tripod, struck a pose and 50 takes later it was over.

In the middle of all that my sweet little one came in and wanted to be in the picture too.

I just kept the camera snapping and the picture above is one that hit my heart hard. 

Sure, it’s cute, it’s even precious.  But it also scared the crap out of me. 

It reminded me of an English paper I wrote that started like this “Monkey see, monkey do, what if she sees the pain I put myself through”.  The paper was a self reflection talking about my struggle with a hidden eating disorder.

Through writing that paper I realized I had a gift (or curse) of being able to influence people.  I also learned that I could write my way through my problems and here I am 10+ years later, still writing.

Years after I wrote that paper I found out I have what the Myers-Briggs personality test determines to be an ENFP personality type.  One of the traits of my personality is that I can explain things in a way that people understand.

Sometimes that can be an extremely useful tool, because by explaining things the way someone is able to easily translate and understand it, they can gain my passion and we can be on the same page to accomplish or conquer just about anything (as long as they handle the little details and I can keep ahold of the big picture).

The curse is that sometimes I’m too persuasive and people end up doing things that aren’t their passion, strictly because they’ve gained my passion, temporarily.  I don’t know if this is making sense as you follow along, but I am telling you it’s a real thing, and a real struggle.

It all boils down to this simple tidbit, which is what I wrote when I uploaded this to social media:

Someone is usually watching what you do {& that someone isn’t always younger}. Act wisely.

You see this isn’t just about being good mothers for our children, but also being good women for our friends, good Christians for the non-Christians and Christians alike, and so on.

I heard this weekend that as Christians we can be the biggest deterrent to people finding God.  Man is that ever true.

If you can do these two things whole-heartedly you’ll be in a good place to not worry who is or isn’t watching you:

Love God + Love His People.

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