Shades of Grey

I just finished with my Sunday morning message entitled "The Sounds of Silence" and I know that somebody in the service on that day is really going to get something out of it. Only one problem. I'm struggling to believe, receive and practice what I am about to preach.

Does that make me a fake? Am I a hypocrite? Challenging questions with no easy answers because it is not always as black and white as it seems. There are grey areas. At least there are in my life. Those grey areas, as much as I would rather not admit their existence, represent seasons and shades that need to be wrestled with, examined, and investigated.

I wish I could say with all confidence and certainty that I do nothing but practice what I preach and preach what I practice. Truth be told there are shades of grey. For every moment that captures the colors of a perfectly worked out truth, there are as many moments that are reflected in shades of grey. Some things are neither here nor there but rather somewhere in-between. It's in those in-between times and in-between places that you can feel like a fake because you're not there yet.

The deception that so many buy into is that unless they have mastered the truth they have committed themselves to, they must be faking it. Don't buy into that lie today. We are all a work in progress and there will undoubtably be some times and seasons colored in shades of grey.