Do you measure up ?

When we meet someone what is the first thing we do............Well I think it is fair to say that we pre-judge, or at best we try to figure them out and place them in our own pre-determined little box, based on our own little reference point in life or society. Now I am a firm believer in that you never get a second chance at a first impression.....However, as I get older and I hope wiser, I think it is fair to say that "what we have been led or told what a person"should look like", really is all crap PERIOD", I think the more secure I am in myself, the less I am concerned with what someone else may or may not feel about me, and that is really relaxing, I meen no more faking, in essence, no more self manipulating situations. The cool thing about being a Husband and Father is that when the day is all over and you come home, your kids don't care what you are wearing or how much you made or what big deal you may or may not have just closed, they are just happy that you are who you are, and thats all that really matters.





I remember a story Dr. Wyane Dyer told to his students, it goes something like: A guy gets invited to a very formal dinner party, once he arrives at the party all the guest stop and look at him, you see he is wearing jeans and a t-shirt. The question Dr. Dyer asked his students is"what is going through the gentelman's mind at that moment"? Well the students start firing off answers, no one could get the answer correct, the correct answer is "the man would not think anything...He is totally comfortable with himself, and anyone that is present, that is also comfortable, would not even notice.





So, when we are in situations, or are even the "situation", lets give ourself the opportunity to see past the external and see that person for who they really are.....A creation, made by God and in the image of God.