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Being Real

by Jean Lockwood

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Making a difference in the lives of people is a never ending goal. Writing things that will encourage, uplift, make a difference, and lead people to know and love God, that is my goal.
Knowing how to accomplish that goal, well, that is another goal.
I guess that in order to know how to do what the desire of my heart is, I have to keep doing what I know how to do.
That is not always easy, as it involves doing what I have been doing, and adding more to it all.
Oh well, I guess rambling on won’t help reach the goal, but knowing what I know might.
I know I have it in me to write.
I know who my redeemer is, and that He loves me and He loves you.
I know how to express myself, but sometimes find it difficult to be too honest, for fear of being thought too sentimental, too sappy, too much of a girl.
I am a sentimental, sappy, girl.
I am also a woman who has always found it hard to let myself feel, or more acurately, to let my true deepest feelings be known.
I have always struggled with emotions. With being real. With letting people see insideof me.
When I write, I am able to cope with expressing those things a little better,
but I still struggle with them.
Being open and honest isn’t always easy.
But that is part of the goal, of touching people, of encouraging them, and helping them see the truth……that they (you) are not alone, and they (you) need God.
Not just some higher power, but GOD.
GOD, who sent JESUS.
JESUS, who loves you enough to make a way for you to know GOD.
JESUS, who has taken the consequences for your sin.
JESUS, who is there, with you right now, waiting for you to call on His name, and acknowledge Him as your Lord and Savior.
That is truth.
That is my goal, to show you the truth.
You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
I may be a sentimental, sappy girl, but I know who GOD says I am.
I am His.


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