What About Me?

Thursday found me at the PWOC (Protestant Women of Christ) Bible Study for the first time. As a newcomer they ask you to fill out a form with your general information. The greeter was such a sweet young lady. So full of God's love that she actually glowed. My little daughter was raiding the name tag table while I am trying to fill out forms about each of us. And then the deer in the headlight moment: I am handed a short form to tell them three things about me....

The first line was mind boggling enough because as I am scanning this tiny little half a sheet of paper I also hear her ask me where I am coming from. Inside I am frantic, so this question stuns me. My mind is running through it's own list of questions, "As in where did I just come from, or where am I currently living, or where I am from originally" So I scribble Tennessee in a hurried ugly scrawl across the form, I felt rushed and was unsure of the need and the lack of desire to write "Well I have been in El Paso for approximately three years"

Then the three most daunting lines are blank, and glaring at me. Just three things about me? Like my hobbies? What I like? Of course it never crosses my mind to write anything personal about myself.

1) I like to read
2) I like to cook
3) I like meeting new people

Can you say Lame? I mean way beyond Lame!

Later in the meeting they read the list of things about each of the newcomers and mine fell really flat. I was the only one who didn't write anything about being married and how long or how many kids and whether they are boy or girl.

I get nervous whenever I am presented with questions such as those and then my answers are flat and distant and leave me with regret that I wasn't able to fully express all that I am:

I am a proud mommy, I am proud wife, but I also love cooking for my family and making breads for my family and friends. I do love to read, I am a voracious reader. I am from Tennessee, I love being from Tennessee. I enjoy being here in El Paso, I really enjoy experiencing a new culture, new foods.

Well, there is always next time


2 Corinthians 2-9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.