Personal Empowerment
There You Are
by DiAnne Malone
I
am really a quiet person. Really. I don’t
care much for crowds. I am content with
just me and the sound of nothingness. I
don’t always know what to say when I walk
into a room. I’d rather folks not even know I’m
there. I just want to come, sit, and watch. I’m
fascinated by the contradiction between people’s faces or outside appearance and people’s
hearts.
I am intrigued by how we tend to try
our best to cover our inward parts with outside fallacies. Once I lock in on someone, or
rather once the Holy Spirit locks in on someone through me, I am often moved to go and
say something, I can’t help myself. I’ve got to
say something, make a face, do a weird gesture with my hands, make someone smile or
think or talk.
Finally, I found out what was “wrong”
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with me. I read a book about becoming the
kind of woman God wants you to be. (I’ll have
an exact reference once I look through my
massive stacks of women’s ministry literature.)
The author described two types of women,
the “Here I Am” Woman, and the “There You
Are Woman.”
Her assessment of these two types of
women was in no way an indictment on personality, but rather a magnification of how we
see ourselves and others. Basically the question was, are you me-centered or other-centered? Here’s how she broke it down: When
you walk into a room full of people, what is
your mind set? What does your body language
convey? How do you react or respond to the
people in the room?
Do you make a grand entrance? Do you
come in dramatically in order to call attention