I love the freedom of limiting my writing to JUST 5 MINUTES.
There is something so scary, so exciting, and so liberating in that journey of just letting my heart flow on paper...ahem...I mean screen without intense analysis or editing.
So each Friday I join with other wordsmith mavericks at Lisa-Jo's corner, the queen of 5 Minute Friday herself, and we share in this joy and freedom!
I hope you enjoy reading these "quickies" as much as I do writing them.
TOPIC: WHOLE
GO.
I have always felt different my WHOLE life.
I am a missionary kid, a 3rd culture kid.
I was born in a country different from my parents, making my life experience unique to theirs.
Yet, due to my heritage, I was never the same as the kids I grew up with.
I have never really ever felt like I "fit in" fully and totally in any community that I was a part of because of my diverse perspective on the world except in college at Oral Roberts University where people came from so many states, countries, cultures, and backgrounds and being "different" was celebrated.
I have learned since that time to find community with those people who can look at me, with my cross-cultural oddities and say, "That's SO Lindsey!"
I think feeling WHOLE in this world, obviously comes from Christ alone.
But that feeling of belonging and wholeness in connection with other people is really when you feel accepted JUST AS YOU ARE.
I really want to be like that.
I want to take the WHOLE person and just love on them, like Jesus would, shining truth, love, joy, peace, & grace through my life everywhere I go, with all that I come in contact.
STOP.
17 comments:
There's such beauty in our diversity. It makes us all whole. I'm glad He's made us all different. I have a sense that others are more whole from knowing you. :)
So glad I popped over from Five Minute Friday. I am living as an expat, and I understand the feeling of never fully "fitting" in - but I love your challenge to love others just as they are, the whole person.
that's beautiful. truly with following Christ there is a certain stigma of being a religious nut, a hypocrite etc...but the one thing that the church has that the world doesn't offer is grace. and so only with grace could we learn to love people whole and incomplete as they are as Christ does. i loved this post. :)
oh yes! I totally hear you even though I didn't grow up the same...those people who just get us and accept us just as we are. they're rare, but so so precious =)
I think we can all relate to the feelings you described, and I agree with you wholeness is truly found in Christ. As our identity becomes more secure in Christ so does our confidence! Thanks for sharing the great post... and thank you so much for your sweet encouraging comment on
my post.
I definitely understand that feeling of not fitting in! When my parents were missionaries was one thing for the short time we were….coming home was a whole other! I love that we are loved in our wholeness and I agree, I'm trying to see people as a whole and love them for the full deal.
:)Good stuff girly!!
LOVE!
Awww...Sandra! Your words are so kind! Thank you for that...and for stopping by!
Thanks, Tara!
Thanks much!
Thanks, Jenn, for your words and for stopping by! I, too, am trying to see people more and more each day as the whole beings that we all are.
Thank you, Danise! I appreciate you stopping back by here and for your thoughtful words!
SO precious! It means THE WORLD to me...more than words can describe!
Grace was my "word" for last year and this year it is "redeemed." I feel that the Lord definitely has me on a journey of grace.
Thanks, Carrie! How is your expat experience thus far?
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