To Be Honest

To Be Honest (or TBH for short) or Truth Is..….Have you played this game on facebook yet? Apparently it’s a popular status game that (seems to me) younger folks are doing. I think you know what I’m talking about but just in case not, here’s how I think it goes. They put To Be Honest or Truth Is as their status and if you click ‘like’ then they go to your facebook wall and post something truth or honest about you. Or something like that. I may have it totally wrong, but basically it gets people sharing their true and honest thoughts about others. I’m going to play this game with you guys right here right now and you don’t even have to click ‘like’.


Truth Is – I play the comparison game and it’s not fun. I don’t even realize I’m playing it sometimes, but then eventually I realize that’s what I’m doing. For example, right now lots of people are going on summer vacations. I hear about it all on facebook and to be honest I am happy for them. Truth is though I just wish I could go on one too.


I hear about people building a house or remodeling their house and truth is sometimes I wish I could too. Don’t get me wrong, I love my house. To be honest though there are some things I would like to change and for different reasons (financial mostly) just can’t do it right now.


Truth is when I see other kids eating anything and everything, I just wish that mine would do so too without having all his texture/sensitivity issues.


To be honest – it makes me feel terrible when I see how organized and clean and clutter free other people’s homes look. I posted something on facebook the other night about stuffitis. I don’t like it. It’s a terrible condition. I’m trying to clean my 6 year olds room and let me tell you, I have to do it little by little, step by step. I’m talking baby steps. I literally got dizzy in there the other night working.


I could go on and on with examples. I’ll mention one more. Truth is – I wish I could write a lovely article like others that I read. But then I think, wait a minute. I’m writing one right now. Calling it ‘lovely’ may be stretching it, but it’s an article. I didn’t even plan to write anything tonight but came across some verses in I John that started the little wheels in my mind turning just a bit. I will share these verses here and maybe you will see where I’m trying to go with this.


In I John 15-17, the Bible states “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”


It simply states do not love the world. How much clearer can that be? Or the things of the world. I am not on vacation right now, but I live a vacation every day compared to so many folks. I have food, a house, a job, a car, a family, air conditioning, and on and on I could go. And it’s not like I’ve never been on one or will never go on one again. I’ve just been playing the comparison game. I may not live in a big ole house or mansion, but I have a mansion OUT OF THIS WORLD prepared for me in heaven. My child has some food issues, but he’s tall and growing and healthy. My house will never be like what you see in Better Homes & Gardens or those lovely magazines that make me feel so inadequate, but I have a house, a roof over my head. I have a family who helps me LIVE in my house. Living is dirty sometimes. It’s all about perspective. I’ve got to quit comparing myself to others. I need to be more thankful for my blessings each day.


I told my husband earlier tonight (when I needed the laptop from him) that I wanted to jot some thoughts down for an article, but that I wouldn’t write the whole thing. And here I am, finishing the whole article in one sitting. Now if I could just do that with my housekeeping tasks. Oh well, to be honest, the world is passing away and it won’t matter in the end anyway.








- by Amy
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