chasing natalie

I never know what to say in these things... I love Christ, my daughter, my two cats Jack and Bob, my job: making websites for churches and non-profits. I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar. I live near the beach but I don't have a view. I love the work Compassion International is doing and I try and support their efforts as God allows me. I'd love to be a photojournalist for a relief organization one day and travel the world taking pictures and documenting what's going on for others to see and get involved. James 1:27 says that religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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20th September 2009

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Hannah Montana

Just finished watching the Hannah Montana movie with my daughter. We enjoyed it. It made me think about the double lives we all live. The person we are on the inside who desperately wants to be on the outside. The facade we portray on the outside who desperately wants to run and hide.

Can any of us truly be who we want to be? Is it everyone around us that wants to hold us back? Or is it just our fears and insecurities?

I think it takes an effort to be who you truly feel you were meant to be. It shouldn’t have to be that way, but sometimes it feels like it’s harder to chase who you really are than it is to just fake it and pretend to be the person you think everyone wants you to be.

Just some random thoughts I had after watching a movie with my preteen, that made me question in my mind why some of us (me) settle for the 2nd rate versions of who we could be, if we (I) would only have courage and faith to chase the real (fill in your name here)… natalie

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