Walls and Layers.......

Once again, God revealed to me another amazing thing about my daughter.

Sometimes its in the small accomplishments that I am overcome with this familiar swell in my heart.  A test she worked tirelessly to study for,  an awesome new trait in horsemanship she has practiced over and over again,  or picking herself up off the ground, literally, on a particularly hard morning........ 

She deeply inspires me and at at times I am certain that God sent her into my arms to be my teacher.

Today, she revealed yet another gift......she taught me something I didn't know she could interpret.  A task we all experience on a daily basis.....an innate ability we take for granted......a quality some of us never quite master....

Today, as she shared whatever the dose of  "daily-school-drama" had served, she explained that all people had...

 "walls".  

"Like bananas, people have lots of layers"........

"Some have small walls and some have very tall ones....

Some have just a few walls and some have many".....

She further professed that not only could she see people's walls but she felt like she could also figure out how to break them down.  Some people had much tougher walls to break than others, some walls took alot longer than others to crack......

She expounded on this revelation in regards to a particular friend that was very possessive of her and wanted an almost exclusive friendship....This 'friend' was causing alot of drama to fulfill this desire....

My daughter.......

MY daughter.......

The child of my heart whom I had surmised was not capable at this time in her life to understand how to read people's feelings, interpreted these subtle, human nuances.   Not the feelings people actually verbalized, but the ones they kept hidden.  The truths they cover up in false accusations, in hurtful agendas and in spiteful actions.

  My daughter is understanding the complexity of the human heart.  

That we are so much more than we reveal on the surface.  That we are multi-faceted and we sometimes say things we do not mean.  We occasionally have hidden agendas that do not reflect our best intentions.  That we sometimes build walls to protect ourselves from past hurts.  That the airs we put on can be radically different than the reality that lies within us.

Again, I am amazed by her intuitive instincts.  I am so thankful for the actualization of her accomplishments.

I am once again reminded that with God....

"All things are possible".......

           Matthew 19:26