Saturday, December 1, 2007 @ 7:41 AM |
HI!! i just thought i would post something i find really nice for you guys~
some of you might probably read this somewhere but anyways its one of my favorite(:
In the book, "The Velveteen Rabbit", a rather revealing dialogue takes place between a new toy rabbit and an old skin horse.
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The rabbit asks the horse:
"what is REAL? Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you're made," said the Skin Horse. " It's a thing that happens to you. When a child really loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you. then you become real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, 'or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. " You become. it takes a long time. thats why it doesn't often happen to those who break easily, or have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you're real, most of your hair has been loved off, your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
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In a world of high expectations - be it at home, at work and even with friends - its hard to be real, isn't it? but too much hiding behind different masks may cause us to lose our identity - over time, we forget, and lose touch of who we really are.
Let's take some time to build, ask God for covenant relationships where we can be REAL and where we are willing to be corrected - in becoming(not losing) the person God intends us to be.
2 corinthians 3:16-18 states:
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord, who is the spirit, makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
~ wx
