I like to see myself as someone who knows her self. I like to think that I'm good about taking personal inventory and asking God to reveal my short-comings. That I'm self-aware and self-analytic.
But the truth is that there will always be things about myself that I don't see. So true courage means being able to ask others how they see you. I haven't done this yet. But I am becoming aware that my walls go up when someone states something they've observed in me which I disagree with. My first reaction is to tell myself that they're just wrong. They're seeing incorrectly.
But maybe, just maybe, they're able to see what I am not. So, it doesn't hurt to get a second opinion. Certainly it doesn't hurt to ask others if they are observing the same thing. And always, I can ask God to reveal to me the truth about myself.
If I really want to be self-aware, I must be willing to see myself as others do.
Only trust someone who speaks the truth (about you, or anything else) in love.
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