I am a big fan of cheesy t.v. shows. I watch a lot of disney channel shows, abc family shows, and even a few on mtv. At the moment, one of my favorite shows is If You Really Knew Me. I am a big cry baby and I will admit it! I don't care what people say about that, because well I feel its a complete gift from God, I am an emotional person and it helps me really relate to others. But this show every time I watch a new episode even an old one, I tear up and let a few tears come out.
If You Really Knew Me is a show about high school kids going through this thing called "Challenge Day." On Challenge Day you pretty much open up to your fellow classmates and let them know all the hurt, frustration and just anything else that lays heavily on your heart. All of the students break off into groups of about 7 people and you begin sharing with this simple statement... "If you really knew me you would know that....." and by the end of the day all the kids are changed after seeing just all the hurt they may have caused, that their friends are going through, and even that people they dont know are going through.
Now to some of you, this may seem just plain stupid, and fake. But to me I find it inspiring. There is so often in so many high schools where the kids are just so nasty and mean to each other and you know it doesn't just happen in schools it happens everywhere. and its not just in high schools either. Its in junior highs, in college, and even withing adults. Its just a really nasty side of human nature and we are all guilty of it at some point in our lives.
I think this show is so awesome because often many high school kids live in their own world and don't think about how their actions are affecting those around them. Or maybe they do know that what they are doing is hurting others and they get some satisfaction out of that. But this challenge day makes them step back and start really seeing the person that is underneath the skin.
In one episode they used the analogy of an ice berg. Ice bergs are 10% above water and the other 90% is below the surface. They compared this ice berg to people. The 10% we let the world see is our Image, the clothes we wear, how we look and present ourselves to each other. The other 90% is who we really are, our emotions, our fears, everything that really makes us who we are. I thought it was such a great picture of who we are and how we act. And then I started thinking of my life as a Christian.
I started asking myself how often I only let the world see 10% of me and leave the other 90% under the water and only ever let a select few see that. But as christians we are suppose to be transparent with one another as a way of keeping each other accountable. However, how many times to we put up a front of " I am a christian and yea thats all there is too it, theres nothing underneath this mask" when the reality of it is, I am a christian and I struggle with sin on a daily basis and it hurts and breaks me down.
So If you really knew me... you would know that underneath the image I give off I am a sinner who gets stuck and messes up and beats herself down for it.
If I really knew you what would i know?
