Who do I resemble?

 Who do I resemble? No strong resemblance to anyone. I see bits and pieces of parents - aunts - uncles - grandparents. 

Hair color (before I started coloring it! LOL

Eye color

Eyebrows.

I think the Hurley genes are stronger in me than Richardson. 

Funny how when we look at our children, grandchildren we want to say - Oh they look like _______!

When, in reality I think we see the resemblance of who we want to see.

AND, we should be praying for the child (& ourselves) to resemble Jesus, not the hair - eyes etc, but the heart, the behavior. Become CONFORMED. Sometimes, I feel more de-formed!

9 characteristics - how hard should that be!!

Love - Joy - Peace - Patience - Kindness - Goodness - Faithfulness - Gentleness - Self-Control

I seem to get stuck on the “Big 4” Love Joy Peace Patience. But this week I have been increasingly convicted to be kind, gentle and to have self-control. None of these are easy for me. I often like to ignore some ugly truths about myself and skip over these. Saying, oh - I am kind and good and I certainly don’t think about gentle and heaven forbid - SELF CONTROL!!!

I wonder why Paul wrote that one last? 

I know now in total “old age” retrospect - Self-control may be the key for me! And Love - these two bookend the rest. Without LOVE and SELF CONTROL how can I have 

Joy? Peace? Patience? Kindness? Goodness? Faithfulness? Gentleness?

For me, the only way to have any is to have Jesus. And it is so much more than “I am a Christian”. I must be a true follower of MY Teacher. And as HIS student, I must study and question. Learn and grown each and everyday so perhaps i will have some resemblance of HIM in ME.