The Road to de•MASK•us

My husband started a new series called The Road to de•MASK•us yesterday and it’s just too good not to share with you from my perspective.

We can get real and be healed or we can pretend and come to our end.

Masking the problem only prolongs it.

We wear all kinds of masks to hide behind the real us. And we do it in various settings for various reasons and for various amounts of times around certain people and not around others.

What’s at the root of this?

We were in staff meeting today and we began to talk about this idea of our sense of who we are in Christ. I would propose to you that the bottom line of why we feel the need to rush and clean up our house before someone comes over, hurry and get the car cleaner than we usually keep it, or wear all black to appear skinnier than we actually are is because we are not ok with who we really are. Let me ask you a question you may not be expecting. You may think I’m going to tell you how great you are and YES! In Christ you are all that and a FAMILY SIZE bag of chips! But let’s talk about your messy house, unkept car, and extra 3 or 30 pounds or whatever your gig may be that you wish was well, something other than what it is that you keep trying to cover up. Maybe it’s more serious than these issues mentioned. But listen, whatever you are masking, God sees and He already has your answer. And for many things, here’s the great news…..WE ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWERS.

So here’s my question :

What are three things you find yourself masking ? I’ll go first to give you the courage to take your mask off.

Mine are – SHOCKER – my weight!! I know you would never guess….LOL

Number two- My lack of routine so I hide behind how busy I am and how much is on my plate.

Number three is hmmmm well, I think I’ve gotten personal enough and am exhausted by this much vulnerability at the moment so may have to ponder what my third one is but you get the idea!!

So now it’s your turn….. what are you masking! Ask God to show you and get real with someone like I just did with all of you. It’s not so bad and I know you love me ANYWAY so let’s pray for each other to finally take off masks we have wanted to for years this year!

2021 is YOUR YEAR! Let’s do something about those things instead of masking them.

Happy Monday!!

Wanta know the truth? Got super distracted this morning and meant to send this out by noon but keeping it real and hope you had a Happy Monday ANYWAY!! I did!!