Be Real

  You all know that if I story I tell has anything to do with our MaKayla, it's usually pretty funny. Well the story I'm going to tell about something she said the other day is funny, but to me it had a much deeper meaning then the incident itself. What she said was so profound & great reminder tome to "be real". Here's the story... I was dressing her & she had discovered a jumper (dress) that she had never worn before. She wanted to wear it, but I couldn't find a shirt that matched to wear underneath it. So I tried to explain to her that I had no shirt to match, I said "you need a red or blue one to wear with it". Not to be put off she pulled an orange shirt out of the drawer & said "Let's just say this one is red". The shirt was clearly orange, & she knew that it was, but she wanted to say it was red!!! Think about that- we can be just like that. We have gotten to the place where we know truth, but we want to change it to suit our liking. Or sometimes we try to convince people we are something that we're not. Or another way to look at it is, sometimes when someone asks us how we are doing, we reply "I'm fine" when we are really NOT fine. We have decided that like MaKayla we will try to convince ourselves & others to see us or things the way we want them too & not really the way they are. All the while we know it's not true, but we hope they don't notice. Or we simply hope to convince them that it's red and not orange.
  Dutch & I both try to live our lives so that people can see our "true colors". We don't want to twist the truth, or try to make things appear the way they are not. It is so important to be REAL. No one is perfect, we all know that, so why try to appear to be. If you want to wear the orange shirt that doesn't match, then wear it, but don't try to convince people that it's red!!
 **Credits to MaKayla who in her own little way inspired this blog. It was a great reminder to me...