God knows..

This is a continuation of yesterday's thought...


Do you have those people in your life that you wish they would see you? They are the ones that you want to be encouraged by or you would love for them to acknowledge the things you do. They are the people in your life that you would die for but they just don't seem to notice you. Yeah they see you in physical form and they talk to you and might even be your friend or relative but they don't see anything past that.

We are so desperate for them to see us sometime we do things out of our norm just to get there attention.

I was watching a show and there was a girl that hurt another girl because she wanted a guy to notice her and not watch the girl her had his eye on. We know it stupid and wrong to do things like that but we are so desperate for there attention and love that we do things like that.

Or we will do anything to try and meet there approval and we get so upset and frustrated when we don't meet there expectations that we put on them.

I have noticed this alot these past couple of weeks. As i am looking around at my friends and just everyday normal people I see how we go and do something for someone hoping they will see us and when they don't do what we hope for we get hurt. We cook dinner or clean the house hoping our mom will come home and see how well of a job we do. Instead she comes home and starts wondering who made the house such a mess. We spend so much time wondering what we can do so we are seen by them and then we try it and it never works. We are always invisible to them. We can't give them what they want or what they are looking for. They are too busy wanting someone else's approval that they don't stop to see us.

I have been in both spots and because of it i have missed out on some great things. I wanted certain people to see me so badly i wanted them to acknowledge me and while i was so busy trying to get them to see me i was not seeing other people who were saying "Dottie, look at me I am here for you, I care about you. I want to know you. I was so busy trying to get certain people to see me that i even looked right past God. I didn't have him and many others on my radar screen because they weren't the people i wanted to be noticed by. ( besides i already knew they cared about me so i knew i didn't have to try).

So many time we wear ourselves thin trying to become visible to people and we lose out on other people in our lifes and we lose our focus. We do do do to get get get and when we don't get we get frustrated. I have learned that we are not invisible to God and we need to just do because we care and don't expect back. God knows our hearts and that is all that matters.

I am slowly learning this and its not easy but I am learning it is so renewing and liberating when we can just give from our hearts and know that we care and love them and we don't expect back.
They might not see it or notice us but it is ok because we aren't looking for that any more. God sees us and we can just love them for who they are.