Outcasts

I have spent much of my life on the outside. You know what I mean… The outside of the popular crowd at school; the outside of the influencers in professional circles; the outside of the seemingly more blessed folks you see on Facebook. Can you identify with that?

I even spent much of my life feeling as though I had somehow ‘missed the boat’ in my marriage, in my career, in my life in general.

But what am I comparing myself to? The fictitious lives on the TV? The glimpse we see of folks in momentary events? The ‘reality’ of people’s lives on Facebook?

Are any of these a reliable source of the ideal that I am supposed to achieve? I think not.

I do believe that there are differences between people. Differences that should be acknowledged and celebrated. We were not all created the same. But we are all equal.

So to what do I compare myself and my marriage and my life to? What is the reality, the ideal, the role that has been designed especially for me? The only place to find that is in the Bible.

Each of us has a role to fill. Has been specifically designed by God for a purpose. I can stop striving to be what I am not. And be the me that God asks me to be.

It’s ok to be a nobody. It is the outcasts that Jesus uses more often than not. Stand firm in your own shoes. Let the others wear there’s. It looks better on them anyway. And mine are pretty comfortable!!

Enjoy this song… For all of us that identify as a nobody…