How others observe you

Today at work was busy, it made for a long day. It was the most action the Bamboo Grill had seen this summer. I probably cooked about 100 hot dogs ans hamburgers each. It made for a long day, but once I got off it ended up being a nice day. Monday nights are always room meeting nights. As I have mentioned before it was D-Group night. Tonight we did our weekly check to see how each of us were doing on our goals. Seeing how we have improved and what we need to continue to improve on. It is a very real time and you must be able to take criticism and have tough skin. Thankfully we all are pretty good at this. Last nights talk we all sat in silence and wrote down our strengths and weaknesses. Tonight we went around and shared to our room what we wrote down. Not to hard, it is fairly easy to say some good and bad things about yourself. I'm sure all of you could sit down and write 5 strengths and 5 weaknesses. Here is the tough part. After sharing our strengths and weaknesses; each group member would share a few strengths and then weaknesses. I was completely honest in all of my evaluations just as I expected my roommates to do to me. I even said before they spoke to not sugar cote anything and that I have tough skin and could handle it. They all said some really nice things, at first. How I am a leader, I'm very outgoing and can approach anyone, I'm passionate, a hard worker, and that I have the ability to change my attitude quickly from funny to serious. It was very nice to hear all these things that others said. Than came some more real stuff that I was prepared to take. I said how I am not the most patient person and that I get frustrated easily, I have a problem showing sympathy to those I don't love, and how I am not humble. My roommates added to this list. They explained how I have a desire for how I want others to perceive me. How I am DANIEL KRONZ and I don't want others to see any of my weaknesses. I completely agree, and I can come off very cocky and arrogant. This ties into how I don't want others to see me mess up, and I want to look perfect. I am very work resulted and work oriented and this can be a bad thing. It was very real and it hit home hard. It was things that I needed to hear. To make me a better witness and try to change into a more godly man. No, I will never be perfect, but I am thankful for the honesty and truth mt roommates gave me. Keep up all your prayer.

Serving Him,

Daniel