Simplify - Sweetie Pie!

I think it would be an interesting exercise to stop one day, have a cuppa, and consider all the many different facets that make up who you are!  God has made each person to be an interesting mosaic of functions and giftings and quirks.

I have found that I have been trying to separate all those different facets of my life into neat little compartments.  For example, I LOVE photography.  That does not mean I am professional or good at it!  I consider myself a happy snapper 😊.  So I have an instagram account for that.  Then, this past year, I have been crocheting up a storm and loving it.  So, as not to bombard my "friends" on facebook and instagram, I started a different instagram account.

Now, I am a pretty private person.  So, although I want to incorporate instagram into my blog, I want my blog to be solely about, well, what my blog is about, and not my dog, my day, what I'm crocheting today, etc, so.... you guessed it, I had (briefly) an instagram account for my blog.  (and I still manage an instagram account for hubby's business).

Twitter, I had one for the blog, where I linked up with like-minded bloggers and a personal one, where I connected mainly with close friends and family.  Facebook, yes I have my own page, also one for my blog... but I found I stopped putting too much Christian stuff on facebook, none on instagram... I wasn't being true to all that I am in Christ but splitting up the different sides of me.

I started finding it all so annoying, posting this particular thing here, that particular thing there.  Avoiding putting this here or that there.  I was starting to compromise!  Not on the content of my various social media outlets, but in what I was NOT putting there.  I was starting to try please man.

Gal 1 v 10(a):  Am I now trying to win the favor and approval of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please someone? ....

I was beginning to be fearful of offending someone who does not believe!!!! Really!!! I felt awful.  I would rather seek God's approval over man's any day but I had been losing the plot.  So, the thought came to mind.... Simplify!  Be you!  Be the you I created you to be!  In one space, as a complete facet!

So, I decided to simplify.  I deleted all instagrams but my personal one.  Moved the business one to hubby 😋.  Twitter I let go of end of last year so project simplify had started already 😊.  And I have decided to post all the Christian stuff I love and share it like I did before, along with my photos and crochet, and any other facet of me that comes to the fore lol!  Of course, being that I am private, one facet you will never see anywhere on social media is my dirty laundry 😜.  I feel so much better about being the "me" God created me to be.

Ladies, does this resonate with you?  If not, that is cool!  I personally think it is the world's way to have us so busy doing stuff and over-complicating our lives without even realizing it, that simplification seems foreign.  But, oh the relief to just be me!

I know that I have over-simplified things.  We are far more than what we can do, we are mothers, wives, Christians, leaders, doers, helpers, servers, etc.  But I think the point I am trying to make is keep it simple and real, and grow that really well, for the glory of the Lord.

God bless
Tracy