Deeperoots

Hey there,

So this is the first real post of Deeperoots. I was unsure as to what I wanted to write about but it seems to me that I have spent this whole entire week observing people and waiting for them to fall apart. Well what I mean by that is this: Have you ever taken the time to just be quiet and watch people, and see how they look, how they actually look? I believe that the reason so many people fall apart is because no one else took the time to notice the warning signs. If we were doing what God commanded us to, which is building each other up, and being there for each other and taking the time to evaluate and to KNOW people, not know just who they want you to know, but know who they actually are, to come to understand why people hide behind what they do. I would love to be selfless and be able to take the time to just look at people and let them talk because that is the one thing that truly binds us all together: the want to communicate. But so often it is our selfishness that keeps us from opening our eyes to the people around us. So often it is the heartache and troubles of our own that keep us preoccupied with what we need and what we want, and often that preoccupation leads to neglect and neglect leads to hurt and hurt leads to seclusion which leads to depression. How hard it is to take the spotlight off of ourselves, but if we think about this logically, the way God wanted it to be we see a big picture that looks something like this: I ask you how you are, I genuinely care about who you are and how you are, you in turn care for someone else and take the time to know them and love them, and in time the cycle will return to me, someone will be looking out and loving me. How contagious selflessness would be if we would only give it the chance! I wish that we could love others so wonderfully that people are not forced to paste on their smiles, so that people no longer feel the need to appear perfect.

My challenge is this, open your eyes to what is happening around you, open your ears to what they are saying and actually hear them and want to hear them, and most important love them with everything you have, a love that forces them to gain true happiness, not whatever comes from forcing one more smile.