I got news a few weeks ago that a high school acquaintance's dad had passed away. A friend of mine is marrying his younger sister and so I heard about it that way originally, and then it turned out that a girl in my bible study works with my high school acquaintance's mom. (Did you follow all of that?) It was through the girl in my bible study that I heard about something that had been said at "D's"funeral...and that's stuck with me over the last few weeks. I've been processing it slowly...wondering what it means for me...
Apparently, they had all different people speak at D's funeral. People from his younger days, people from the different places they had lived, etc. But one of the men that spoke said something about how all of these different people have been talking about D and what was so amazing is that he was the same person everywhere he was...he was consistent in who he was and what he stood for. Makes me wish I had known him.
And makes me hope people can say that about me. I hope that when I pass away (hopefully many, many years from now, God willing) people from all walks of my life will say "One of the things that I really appreciated about Karyn was that she was the same no matter where she happened to be...At work, at home, at the grocery store, at the baseball fields, at church and on vacation. She was consistent.
I've talked about loving well. I think this goes hand in hand with that. As a believer, I don't ever want to give a non-believer--or even a believer for that matter--a reason to question my actions and words. I want to be consistent everywhere I go regardless of where you bump into me. What you see is what you get...and what you get is the ME that God is creating me to me. (Even if it is the good, the bad and the ugly, in the workplace or at the grocery store.) I want to love others well...and in order to do that...I gotta be the ME that He's creating me to be.
This whole thing is a journey...I'm just doing the best I can along the way.
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