If you choose to build a wall around your heart, make it low enough for love to climb over.
You know, I find it kind of funny. Sometimes I try so hard to make my facebook profile and my twitter description to show as much of me as possible. I try to put as much of myself as I can into these silly little things. I do it so that you'll read it. So that you'll know me.
The funny part isn't that I do this. The funny part is that all that stuff doesn't even scratch the surface. I loved writing my Who Am I? blog and make lists like that in my head all the time, but that's not the stuff that matters. Yeah, maybe those are the quarks that make you love me just a little more, but that's not who I am. You don't really know me.
You don't know how deep I go. You don't know how I feel by looking at me. You don't know what makes me tick. You don't know my struggles or my heartaches. You can't. Not from those little lists.
When I was 14 I started using the metaphor of 10 ft thick concrete walls surrounding me. I wouldn't let anyone in. With a little help from a friend I broke those walls, once. With a little more help, I'd like to break them again. Would you help me do that?
Whoever you are.
Song of the Moment: Rain by Patty Griffin. More specifically, this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB23y8E1ZdE&feature=channel_video_title I just can't get enough it. It gets to me every single time.
Don't let others look down on you because you are young but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12
