I have spent so many hours reading about my favorite characters.
I see character qualities in them that I see in myself:
A shyness & orderly ways like Christy.
The fun sense of humor from Katie.
Unique spontanity like Sierra.
It's just been hard to accept my OWN qualities, ya know?
I mean, I know they're just made up characters, but I get kinda sad when I notice their personality is a social butterfly & I'm....not. I think I've missed opportunities to be free like the wind!
But I mean, I DO have a social side to me. And I DO do things "on a whim" sometimes. But for the most part, I just long to sneak away from all the noise & be alone. It's so hard to do that with proper peace when you get the feeling everyone thinks you're mad or sad or whatever.
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But if these awesome authors...mere humans! can write amazing lives for these "people", imagine what GOD can write!
That helps me a lot to know that I'm sure my life is going to turn out even BETTER than these made up characters!
There are times I think my life is literally a book. Do you know what I mean? Like someone just made me up & the people reading about me just pick up from where they left off a few days ago. Does that make sense?
Or in other words...the characters I read about don't know they're in a book! Haha, if that makes sense to anyone I'm surprised!
Anyway, seriously! What if we are just made up stories?
And then I thought...in a way we kinda are.
I read this verse before that says,
"Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it." -2 Corinthians 3:3-
So yeah, in a way I am a book ;) Read by everyone.
Thanks for taking the time to read this...
p.s. picture isn't mine =)
8 comments:
I often wonder the same things when I read those books. I am becoming the girl God created me to be, though -- and I think that, in the plan he wrote for us -- he planned for us to admire those things about Sierra and Christy and Katie -- and Tracy and Todd and Doug, too -- and perhaps he's already planted them inside us, just waiting to come out.
I don't if this made any sense, but your music over here is inspiring me to just write what's on my heart. It's thunderstorming over here, and all it makes me want to do it love Jesus and write what He wants me to write. I'm in a story writing mood!
I know exactly how you feel. :) For almost as long as I can remember, I've been comparing myself to other people, whether real or characters in a book. It's not a good habit and I hope one day to be free from it.
I'm not a social butterfly, and sometimes I feel weird because I don't have any really close friends to hang out with and I'm not always calling or texting someone. And because I actually don't mind being alone. I'm not one of those people who talks all the time, and sometimes my mom is like, "Why aren't you talking? What's wrong?" It's just sometimes I just don't feel the need to chatter, you know? :)
Anyway, thanks for this. And I'm sorry to be rambling. :)
~Kristin
This is awesome! I've often had that same thought about my life being a story. And that verse fits perfectly. Knowing that God is scripting your story certainly makes you realize just how much He loves you!
Blessings,
~Melody
i liked this post. :) i totally know what you mean.
Noella,
I read this earlier in the morning (like after 1:00 a.m., ha!).
Anyway, I can relate to what you are saying. Sometimes, it can be difficult to be yourself in a society that is constantly begging you to be something that you are not. It's quite frustrating. It's also easy to compare ourselves to others (rather they are characters ni a book or movies), even though these people are often times not "real."
I think you made some great observations in your post. I really enjoyed reading it. :)
-Lady Rose
beautiful!
All I can say is simply, "I know."
Sometimes I have to step back from all the characters and everyone. Just take a look at my life and set myself back into place. God wants us they way He made us and I know He is writing an awesome story... even if I can't see how it will turn out. :)
Thanks for sharing!
I am very far from a butterfly, myself. Sometimes I think a quiet caterpillar life is more my comfort zone. I enjoy people, very much. I need friends. But I like quiet days and calm moments and time to soak up the beauty of the here and the now.
But, you are right. God writes our stories, and they are amazing and full of adventure and unexpected surprises. :) What is best is that they can all end perfectly...no matter what happens between here and now, if we let Him keep writing.
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