Marianne and I have been in South GA for a few days enjoying the sheets of humidity and bugs raining against our windshield. It is amazing how two places just a few hours apart are so different. I am sure there are plenty of ‘country’ people in Lawrenceville but wow there are some serious country people around ‘heanl’.

It is really easy to adapt to the culture when we come down here. One day Madi played in the dirt driveway of Marianne’s parent’s house, drank from the water hose and ran around the yard barefoot which are all things she never does at home. It was great because she was happy and occupied which meant she gave her mother a break for a few minutes. I even commented to Marianne how we need to find a place with a little land so she can play like this at home.

One evening we went to ‘The Wal-Mart’ (that is how you refer to it here) and Madi having already had her bath was just in a diaper and bare foot. Well….we just took her to Wal-Mart in her diaper. There she was running around in her diaper through the store looking like a good trailer park baby fresh from playing all day in the yard. She was running through sporting goods and electronics and I was chasing her having a blast. I would have never let her run around bare foot in her diaper through Hamilton Mill Wal-Mart but since we were in the ‘ham’ I thought it would be just fine.

It is bizarre how we let our guard down when we are in a comfortable setting and allow ourselves to be more of who we truly are. I believe this character trait may also carry over into our spiritual lives as well. We have a true person that we are and we know when we are being that person and when we are not.

Often times our circumstances and the people around us determines what self is revealed. Who are we trying to impress? Why do we care about their impression of us? Are we concerned about Jesus’ impression of us? Do we realize he loves our true selves and wants us to let it out for good in every situation? He wants us to stop grand standing pretending we are someone we’re not and just be who he made us to be all the time.

Whoever He made you to be, find it and live it out everyday…not matter where you are. I am certain it is more fun to live this way!