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Last Sunday our pastor asked this question--

If you had to replace your Facebook profile picture with a word—one word, what would that word be?

A word did pop immediately into my mind. However, the next moment my mind began to wander. I didn't hear much of the rest of the sermon. I pondered his question...I still am.

Why did I pick that picture for my profile picture?

It's a picture of my husband and myself. We're in NYC. We were there on vacation for a few days.

But why that particular picture? Is that how I think of myself? Half of a whole? Why isn't the photo just of me? I have changed it a few times. However, 90% of the time the picture has been of the 2 of us. It's perplexing.

Am I afraid of being alone, is that why I posted a picture of the 2 of us? Not quite whole without him?

Is that how I want to be perceived? Look at me I have someone. I'm not all alone.

Does a picture of just me paint the entire picture that I have of myself? Probably not. But I am married. And I love being married, and I am a mom, grandma, daughter, sister, friend, etc.

And he is the other half of me. For the most part, I think it is how I want to be perceived.

One word—OK, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, neighbor—or are those just the masks or hats that I wear? I think there is more to me than that. Sure those are definitions, but maybe just of the outside.

But, what is the true definition of the inside of me?

I'm going to stick with my original word. It encompasses not only the outside but my insides as well, all my masks, hats, and definitions. The true sum total of my being. It's the reason I'm here and the reason I strive to live—fully.

Gandhi said--I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Christian. A follower of Christ. In the purest sense of the word. Nothing added, nothing taken away.

Just Him. And me. Inside and out—it will always be all about Him. That's my word. Call me anything else, call me everything else— in the end it still boils down to one word.

Christian.