Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery we’re told. I have spent my entire life trying to ‘fly under the radar’, to be invisible. That’s REALLY hard to do when you’re a six foot tall woman. Yeah, no kidding. It is becoming more and more apparent to me that I’m not as invisible as I’d thought/hoped. How do I know? God is sending people to tell me to my face just how visible I really am. This can actually be kind of good for someone who has, in the past, exhibited a lack of ability when it comes to telly people the truth in love. Oh, I can be truthful alright, ‘I think that if Paul told some of the disciples that they shouldn’t eat meat lest a new Christian stumble and fall then maybe she ought not to be wearing THAT to church showing off what her momma gave her!’  That is an example of how NOT to tell the truth. No love, y’all. So what to do instead if the younger women are watching and learning? Have that hair and make up done in a contemporary, fashionable way and dress nice but age appropriate.

Show love to my husband even when things maybe tense between us because the tense part will pass so two things: 1. The faster I forgive and come at him with love and kindness the faster the ‘tense’ goes away, and 2. Anything I said during the ‘tense’ part that wasn’t nice I now have to apologize for and who wants to apologize more than they have too? Do you REALLY  want to stand there and say a laundry list of apologies for everything that came out of your mouth in anger? I don’t.

So during those ‘tense’ moments, try to get out with as minimal damage to you and your husband as possible so that when you’re sitting in church, you can genuinely look at him with love in your eyes.

Greet strangers. Wear a smile. That’s how we act like light and salt, people.