Why is it so hard to see clearly sometimes?  Especially when it comes to looking at ourselves?

(note to the lunch bunch:  what I’m about to share isn’t anyone in my close circle of friends….so don’t freak out! ) 

I was talking to a friend the other day and she was commenting on how frazzled acting one of our friends can be.  What so surprised me about her comment was that I didn’t see that in our other friend at all….instead, I saw that in her!  

It made me think again about something I often wonder about…..how others see us, and how we really see ourselves.

Why is it that sometimes we are so easily misunderstood?  I think I am portraying someone who loves other people and wants to connect with other people (because I really do) and yet I have been told (one more than one occasion) that I seem unapproachable.  

I am still struggling to figure life out, and then I am told that I look like I “have it all together”.   You know what I tell people when they say that?  I tell them it’s because I’m wearing jewelry!  They laugh and ask what that has to do with anything.  And I tell them it’s something I learned when I was selling Premier Jewlery……if you want to look “put together”, you should always add earings and a necklace…it always completes a look.  And thus, makes you look like you have it all together!

Yeah, it’s tough when people see things in you that aren’t true.  It’s also tough when they see things in you that ARE true, and you can’t seem them.  I’ve had that happen before.  A long distance friend and I had a chance to be together for a visit.  She was sharing with me something that she “saw” in me……and do you know what?  She was right on target and I hadn’t even realized it……although as soon as she said it, I knew it was true.  It makes me wonder if someone could pass me the glasses and I could see all my faults and failures……would I want too?

I guess that is the beauty of good friends….the kind of friends who know you, sometimes better than you know yourself, and still love you.

That’s the beauty of God, too.