Facebook Publication Date: 11/22/2021 12:11

Lace on Race/Lace on Grace

“There are some people you don’t want to like you”–Beth Moore

I felt this to my very marrow.

Still, I want to be clear about this.

As a Z-list public figure oh, I do want to be liked.

I want subscribers. I want followers. I want thumbs up.

I want you to, if not like the message and the method that I share with you everyday oh, I want you to at least be activated and energized by it.

*I do not want what people feel about me personally to get in the way of that*.

I feel strongly about what I do and how I do it, and yes, I want that to be seen and heard.

That said, I deeply agree with Beth Living Proof Ministries with Beth Moore when she said the thing that stopped me in my tracks this morning. ‘There are some people you don’t want to like you’.

While I will engage with anyone, and strive my hardest to see the light in every human being I encounter, I do not strive to be liked by the disingenuous, by the sarcastic, by the contemptuous.

It is sad but true that you are known by The Company You Keep, and I find deep truth there. I hope every day that what I have to say resonates with people of good heart and good spirit, or people with the mustard seed of good heart and good spirit.

I hope that my words are never used to be weaponized by bad actors, either weaponized back to myself, or God help us, even worse, weaponized towards other people.

I don’t want the people who would do those things to like me.

But now that we’ve done this bit of a meditation about the word like, we have to talk about love, which means we have to talk about Hesed.

I need to be very careful that the people who sometimes are (quite) harsh to me or who say things in ways I may not like are not shunted off into the corner of people who do not like me.

Often, it’s quite the opposite.

They’re willing to partner with me to be the absolute best woman I can be, the woman I say I want to be, and some people will do it by absolutely any means necessary.

*And I need to embrace that*.

I need to not dismiss those whose balm comes with a decided sting; that’s where discernment comes in.

So now, I don’t care if I’m liked.

I specifically don’t care if I’m liked by people who do not track with the Northstar.

But I *do* want to be loved. In the right ways; not fawning, not echoing my words without seriously considering them and incorporating them, not for the dopamine rush.

Loved and held and challenged–and rebuked snd course corrected when warranted. That’s Love too.

Thanks for reading my morning meditation.

Read it for itself, then pivot to race.

Queries:

Are you willing to give up being liked–or ‘liked’?

The truism I spoke of above: are you the company you keep?

How do you find the earnest, the truly kind?

How does one discern between balm that stings even as it exposes and heals, and poison meant to maim and destroy?

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