Going back to the roots of our blog – an introvert feels invisible sometimes. We will delve into why we feel like this, pretty much from personal experience.
I will start with the fact that I am not even supposed to be here. My mom had a procedure done to prevent pregnancy. Apparently my little polliwog self was determined to get here though because it swam up through an opening that was closed off. I believe I was a surprise to everyone involved, including the doctor.
Fast forward to grade school – I was usually the last person called on when teams were being picked. It wasn’t necessarily because I was the worst in sports (there were a few worse than me), it was because people would forget that I was even there. The same thing happened with teachers when they were calling on people for all the cushy classroom chores, like erasing white boards and the like. Teachers forgot I was even in the room.
Let’s fast forward several more years. My wife and I have three children and this particular year she was teaching first grade in the Christian school in the school the children were attending. The school was associated with a local church and we had visited this church many times because we had relatives that attended there. The pastor had met me several times, but no matter how many times we saw this man, I always had to be re-introduced to him. He never remembered who I was, even though my wife was teaching in his school. It takes at least two hands to count how many times I had to meet him – over and over again!
I am an introvert partially because I am invisible (or so it seems). There are other stories to prove my super power of invisibility but it won’t get to the final point of this edition. I have often wondered if I would have been a good spy because I can walk all over and no one realizes I am there. I have been in lines and people walk right in front of me because there didn’t see I was there. I realize this happens to everyone once in a while but for me it is the norm. Therefore, Uncle Sam should have hired me long ago but they didn’t see me coming, I guess.
I am saying all this to get to this point, even though no one sees me, God did! He gave me a wonderful, full life, with a wonderful loving wife and three beautiful daughters that have beautiful families that all love God and are willing to serve Him in whatever capacity they have. It is nothing I have done, God did it all. God brought us to where we are at – in His will.
To all you other introverts out there: if it looks like you are invisible to others you do not have to look any further. God sees you. God loves you! God will take care of you!
“No matter what may be the test
God will take care of you
Lean, weary one, upon His breast
God will take care of you
God will take care of you
Through every day, o’er all the way
He will take care of you
God will take care of you”
God sees and has always seen me. I am not invisible!
~AE
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