Matching...

I already posted this hilarious story on Facebook, but had a spiritual epiphany about it and wanted to repost it here:

While going through my daughter's school-work folder I found this picture:

I was all verklempt, (how DO you spell that word????) as they say, and could barely ask her why she chose me for the tears that were coming...and she said, "Because you match."
"I'm sorry...what?!"
"You match Mommy."
"Oh. Ok."

How could I inquire further when it was so obvious that it made perfect sense to her? I was her hero because I matched. We had a good laugh about this on Facebook...and as I was poking fun at myself, it hit me.

Oh, that what I say and what I do would match.

May I be my daughter's hero because she sees authentic living. She hears what I preach because it echos what I do.

1 Thessalonians 4: 11, 12 "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody."