Authenticity
I’ve been going through some thinking lately about where I fit in and what my role is. As I look at life, it seems to me that there are many different roles that we can fit into or get locked into. There’s who I am with family, with friends, at church, at work, doing ministry, ect. So many different categories, so many different aspects of me that come to the surface as a result of what gets reinforced by those around me.
The thing that I’ve been learning here on my stint team is how to grow into authenticity with my fellow teammates. This has been a process that must be intentional. See, it started out by getting to know each other at the beginning of the year. To do that we were super intentional, asking all kinds of questions about family, friends, school, interests, you name it. Each of us started forming a picture of the others from this. Now, halfway through the year, we have to make sure that our experience of each other hasn’t stopped there.
We could do fine for the rest of the year going with the current team dynamic as it exists now, but we would then miss out on so much. Friendships require continual care and fostering; that is what we want to do here. We want to be known be each other so that God will be better glorified and served through our team. By us knowing each other, we love each other more. This love for each other then becomes a tangible expression of the Gospel to those around us.
I want to be consistent in living who I am as God is shaping me. I want to let go of all the expectations I, and others, have about me and live my life as I truly am in front of people. I want to be able to cut the act and walk the real walk. All of this God is enabling me to do. I have let go of everything that I was holding on to, and I have accepted the life that He has given me.