I've Got A Secret!!

I love secrets! Do you? I love to play the secret game with kids. You whisper something in their ear and then make a big deal about it and tell them to go tell someone else and when they repeat it there is absolutely not one single word close to what you had originally told them. I used to get Gabe and Kristina to go and tell Shane all sorts of things because I enjoyed listening to them re-tell what I "didn't" say...haha

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I would like to think that I'm a good secret keeper and with some things I am but oh with others I'm just an Aunt Tolly. I tell the whole thing. I can't keep it to myself. It just blurts right out of my mouth! I can't "hoover" it back in fast enough once I realize what I've done. Once it's out there...it's there. I cringe when someone says "Now, don't tell anybody" because I'm thinking to myself please let it be something I can keep a secret! haha

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Shane has a hard time keeping secrets too. One year we bought the kids a trampoline for Christmas. We stood in line for hours the day after Thanksgiving to get a good deal on it and as we sat at Pizza Hut several weeks later having a night out with the family he blurted out in conversation "How long do you think it will take to put that trampoline together?"

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"...this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory." Colossians 1:27 (NLT). So many times we act as if Christ is a secret that we can't share with others. We hold it all in and don't tell it to everyone we see. I'm just as guilty of this. I go through my daily routine never stopping and thinking that I am coming in contact with people who need the Lord. I am very guilty of praying asking God to open doors for me to serve him but then when the opportunity arises I am too blind to see (or maybe I'm too scared) that the door is just standing there gaping open. Maybe it's time that we look at our Savior like a mouth watering secret that we just can't keep! I bet we would tell more people about Him...after all...aren't we women? Don't we gossip? Might as well be talking about something good don't 'cha think? I've got a secret...what about you?