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>> Saturday, January 15, 2011

Here we go...first blog of the new year! Welcome to 2011, friends!

I've never been a huge fan of New Years resolutions...mainly because I've never been that great at keeping them (along with the rest of the world). But there was something different about this year. Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking. Over thinking, if I can be so honest. I've been over thinking this statement:

"Who am I?"

I'm so quick to label myself different things. My first reactions are listing all the labels that have been placed (some directly and others indirectly) on me. The world just isn't a very pretty place anymore. All the labels thrown on people are so harsh. We label people without having the slightest idea of who they are. (Notice the "we"...I'm completely guilty of this.) To keep on the honest track here, I'm so entirely over labels/stereotypes. I'm just done with it. So my new yew years resolution this year is this: To just be me. That's it.

The fact of the matter is that none of the "names" I've been given over my 22 years of existence even matter. Correction: Only ONE matters. Daughter of the Most High.

Let me just take a little pause and say: I'm not naive enough to know that everyone that reads my blog is a believer. I get that. But fact of the matter is that Christ is a very real part of my life. I often do a very poor job of showing that but truth be told, He is the only reason I'm here today. I apologize for the view of Christianity that the world has portrayed to you. The media shows God as being a horrible god who sits up on a cloud caring less about humanity and hating everyone. They could not be further from the truth. The God I know and serve loves the ones the world has named unloveable, forgives those who can find no forgiveness elsewhere, and work continuously throughout our world through anyone, regardless of race, sex, or social class, who is willing to serve Him.

So that's my new years resolution. Live my life in the best way I can to reflect that I'm a daughter of the Most High. I'm letting go of the labels that have burdened me for so long and embracing the once that holds the very fibers of my being together.


"For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" , the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children then heirs- heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him."
-Romans 8:15-17


Love. Love. Love.
-Katie

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