daughters' question

"mom, why do you share about your personal stuff?"

oh darling.
because if nobody ever said anything about their lives to other people, they would be so alone.
if we don't open up and share our lives, nobody else will know our struggles and our celebrations.
nobody else will have the opportunity to learn something from what we know.
nobody else will be able to share in our joy and our turmoil.
we wouldn't be able to lift each other up if we didn't share in each others lives.

why do i share about my personal stuff?
because God has called me to be open about things that just aren't spoken.
things that are generally hidden under rocks and shushed away.

mental health
chronic illness
things that we wish other people would talk about, but yet we are quiet.

because it's not just me going through it.
so many people do.. but nobody will speak.

"but it makes me uncomfortable"
if we always lived in comfort, we would never grow, we would never learn, we would never truly live. we would be under a shell as so much of life passed us by.

sometimes we need to be uncomfortable to be more, to be better.