I am exhausted inside and out. Frustrated. To say I am "imperfect" is sort of a slam on the word "perfect." I shouldn't use it even though I'm saying "IM" in front of perfect. I want to be at least close to perfect. Thing is, there's a part of me that KNOWS who and what I am and what I'm capable of. That part is shouting swear words. It wants me to know that I am . . . blankety blank blank pile of blankety blank. So strange to be in one moment exhausted, aware of God's mercy, love and my dependence on Him.. but then also to have this inexhaustible striving inside, this insistence that I must under no circumstances surrender. I must not humble myself. I must not be ok with me... my best, my worst.. my self. But I am ok with me. I am also so mad at me. I am so tired. There is so much inside my head, inside my heart, inside inside inside. Come out little inside things. You are rattling every time I think, every time I move, every time I want to change - you remind me that I am human and limited by the things that I let live inside me. So, get out, get away. You can no longer stay. I know I will seem strange, but only strange mostly to myself because I have always been this way - proud, silent, afraid. But there isn't room for love AND you here, so, good-bye, good-night.. go away ... today, tomorrow, and every day after. Ha. I wish it could be that way. Decide today, be changed forever. But tomorrow will come and my tongue will be glued to the roof of my mouth and I will have to choose the same things I chose today.. I will have to tear my tongue off the roof of my mouth and make it say things that will make me free. One person can't be their own community. If they are, it's called insanity. All that, and I must get back to my unpacking. Life can be good, if I want it to be. It can stay the same .. almost forever, if I refuse to choose.
I didn't want to be on facebook
I didn't want to be on facebook. And when I did, I made all my settings super private. And then I said "NO" to lots of people who wanted to "friend" me. And then when I did add people, I ERASED THEM. Not all, just some. I wanted facebook to be just for me and my family. Know why? One reason is, I want to know you in real life. I don't want your facebook life. And you don't want mine either. I tend to post super cute things that my kids say. Oh and they are brilliant. You do need to hear those things. ( I actually post those things so that when I make our yearly photo album I'll have cute things close at hand to make the book all the more memorable to us). But I would never post the fact that I just got told I was a dumb mom and that my son hates this family and never wants to be here again, my precious son who has autism and we are just learning how to work with him and we fail multiple times daily. And when we have no money, I'm not go...
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