Tomorrow Is Another Day

Somedays I feel as though I have cheated the world into thinking that I am more than I actually am.

Actually if I'm honest with you, most days I feel that way. However most days, I really don't have a problem feeling as though I have gotten away with something. Now I don't feel this way because I am fake or pretending to be something I am not. Believe me, my life is just as hectic, crazy and ready to fall apart as the next persons'. I believe evidence of this is the fact that I only have a few short and random posts every few weeks, as opposed to a more regular schedule. :) As I said earlier though, most days I'm okay with it though. As a kid whenever people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up or later on when I was in high school and everyone asked me what I was going to go to college for, I couldn't help but think of one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite people. Once upon a time someone was interviewing Cary Grant on being Cary Grant. Because lets be honest folks, he is pretty amazing. Cary Grant told this to his interviewer

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point. 

I think that kind of sums up how it goes in our life when we have our image of who we are. We know inside who we really are. Our friends, family, and acquaintances all know different facets of that person. We all know who we have been, but we just don't know who we are going to be. I think we are all using Cary Grant's philosophy in some form or another. We want to be a better version of ourselves and so we act as though we already are that version and hope that someday its no longer an act. Sometimes people take drastic steps to help that game of pretend. Whether they be outward (such as surgery, dieting, exercise, fashion change, a certain job title) or inward (e.g. self-help books, changing philosophy, religion, or beliefs), we are all in some way trying to become that "better version".

This post, is a chance for me to tell you that I'm not very good at it. Some days I feel miles ahead in maturity and experience, and some days I feel miles behind. Sometimes I think how thankful I am that I will never have to learn that lesson again, and then two weeks later I'm relearning something my parents have told me since I was four years old. This is also a post to say that if you're realizing that you're not changing maybe as fast as you would like, its okay! Please don't add stress and pressure to yourself because you feel like you aren't where you should be. That is a terrible feeling that no person deserves. With prayer and patience, you will begin to notice a change. God hasn't given up on you, so please don't give up on yourself. One of my favorite sayings that a very good friend of mine told me once is that "God is more patient with us than we are with ourselves". I love the truth in that statement. I know I'm not perfect... yet! God knows I'm far from perfect, but He views me as perfect because He views me through the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. How amazing is that? Here is one of my favorite Bible verses that I would like to leave you with:

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. - Philippians 1:6

Isn't that just great? He will perfect US :)


Oh and what was it that inspired all of this? :) Well today at work, me, myself and I, the trained chef and professional baker, used a boxed Betty Crocker cake mix because I didn't like the recipe we had for our vanilla cake because I thought it was just too dry. :)