Yesterday I had that strong urge to get out of the house and go shopping. That never happens. Evidence that a growing human has overtaken my body.
After I survived Target on a holiday and managed to get an Icee from the food court (preggo craving #4, can't remember the last time I had one... maybe I was 10? Man, it was as good as I remember!), I headed to my car and picked up my phone to call Meredith.
After I survived Target on a holiday and managed to get an Icee from the food court (preggo craving #4, can't remember the last time I had one... maybe I was 10? Man, it was as good as I remember!), I headed to my car and picked up my phone to call Meredith.
Meredith being the one-and-only Meredith Espey, of Everything Espey; as in, all things awesomeness.
Meredith is a gem. She's incredibly real/honest/transparent, funny, and down-to-earth. Those qualities right there are some of my favorite attributes of a friend.
I could go on and on about Meredith, but I'll just leave it at this: we've only known one another since August 2011. When we talk on the phone, we talk for hours. And when I found out I was pregnant, she was one of the first that I told, and she was the one that told me I needed to wait to tell the hubby :)
It boggles my mind how I know someone so intimately that I have never even met in "real life." (I would like to add that, although I mention how much I love my blog friends, I am not a total loser who has no "real life" friends :) Hahaha!)
I attribute the depth of friendship with Meredith so fast and so soon because she's transparent. Real. Honest. And genuine. And in-between all of that, she has some pretty darn funny one-liners.
This is all to say that my conversation with her (which got me so inspired that I made a whole batch of Valentine's Day cupcakes and ate 2 of them, gasp!) was, and always is, so refreshingly honest.
Talking with her always brings me back to realize that this (transparency) is a quality that you must posses in order to have true intimacy with God, your spouse, or your friends.
You have to get real to get going.
"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway."
-- Mother Theresa
Are you transparent in your relationships? Or do you find it hard to get real? Take it up a notch and get vulnerable... your honesty just might impact another person who just might say, "You too?!"
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