“It’s not about doing the right things to be a good person,

It’s about being a good person so you do the right things.”

 

How often do we just get things backwards?  I have noticed how the culture of the good O’ll United States Of America is the worst with getting it backwards. Once upon a time long long ago we got it, what it meant to be real and good, honest and true and we taught it to our children and them to theirs. Once upon a time Heart mattered more than the appearance of having it all together. Our American Culture has changed from wholesome to hardened, it has turned into one big Broadway, It is all about who is the best act,. We are teaching our children to play dress up with their lives, teaching them that who they really are is not good enough, so you have got to pretend, and you have got to be good at it.

 

Instead of dealing with our junk and working on our heart, dealing with who we really are, we would all rather pretend that we are something less than true instead of working to become what we hope like good parents, loving wives, trust worthy friends, and diehard Followers of Christ. The crazy thing is that playing this dress up version of life

is a lot harder in the long run and with way more risk. You have got to remember what costume goes with what group of people, for what time of the day, and for how long. Then what if someone asks you about your past, well then you have got to quickly change costume mid act so that you can perform some sort of false reality of who you were then. You have got to portray your past perfectly because your past is a direct reflection of who you really are.

 

Gosh, what if you accidentally put on the wrong shoes, your entire cover could be blown. Everything that you have worked so hard to create for so long could crumble, you could be found out, revealed as the fraud that you are, and then what? You either face it, realize that playing dress up was not all that you had hoped it would be, you stop faking it , seeing that being exposed is the closest to freedom that you have ever been. Or you do what most of us do, you continue to run, leaving behind you a trail of burned bridges, meaningless relationships, and broken hearts. Your past continues to breathe down your neck just waiting for the chance to expose you again. You will never really enjoy life because you will never really live, because your to-do list never ends, and the many costumes that you carry  need to be constantly cleaned and freshened up. You’ll never have enough time to get it all done, you will always disappoint the very ones you aim to please, and the ones who so desperately long for you will never get you.

 

We have got to stop running and deal, or we will one day die alone and full of regret.