The start or the end of something

I have been having a internal debate for some time now. The question I continue to ask myself is, "Do I really want to be one of those people?" By those people, I mean those of you across the great expanse of the Internet with a blog. The answer to that question was and still is a resounding NO, but here I am writing my first blog post. It feels like a nice leap off a 1o foot cliff. Its not going to ruin me but it will probably feel really crappy. Anyways hopefully this will keep all those crazy voices in my head quiet for a bit.....just kidding. I decided to label this site slightly deep thoughts and observations because I wanted to be able to spread my humor to everyone that reads this. If you think about it if I were to take off the word slightly from the title, people would be expecting C.S Lewis, Billy Graham or Socrates. Now with one word I have completely lowered everyone's expectations and put myself right where I want to be. This now allows me to spread my wonderful cheer and try to touch on a serious topic here or there.

So onto the things that I want to testify about. Here's an idea, what if we were authentic in every single thing that we did each day. What if we let other people know we were broken? Why do we first try to fake it? For example I have been going to church all my life, (approx 25.83 years) and there is no other place I have ever been where people fake it more. You may be asking what is "Faking it" Faking it hides the truth, it comes from those times, where we lie and mask the things in our lives that we don't want people to see. It's almost arrogant, we want to seem like we have it all together, that we are better than other people. Like the Saviour that we say we follow hasn't put together all of our broken pieces. Shouldn't the church be the place where the most humble people reside? Aren't we by asking our king to save us, admitting our failure? We needed someone to save us and he did and we know it. So why is it that when people talk about the church they use words like "Arrogant" and "Judgemental?" Do people want to hear that they are failures? Do you want to hear that? I don't, how would people respond to the phrase "We are failures," cause we all are. I am no longer just willing to accept masking my life to avoid having other people look at it. I can't say that I won't fake it anymore or that I am going to lose the desire to fake it. But if we are supposed to show others his light, then I guess we need to be see through.