Eliza in Progress

Who wants to be a Serious Susan?  I have fought my whole life against that because ironically even though my whole focus and a huge part of my identity was being "funny", I still came across as a serious Susan. I hated that.  I tried everything to rid myself of that label. I wanted to be loud, fun, bigger than life and of course hilariously funny.  Roughly .7% of the population has seen me as that party in a bottle personality, but man those 3 people could tell you some stories ;). What I pictured myself as...    But for the rest of the 99.3% I just kept trying to prove that I wasn't the old British butler I appeared to be.   What I come across as.... Blogging and social media came along which was a perfect forum for my introverted little heart so that is where I let it all out.  Finally I was getting recognized as funny, a label I had dreamed of my whole life.  Nevermind the backhanded compliment that almost everyone, especially those that had known me m

In the Bible there is a story of two disciples who were discouraged and grieved.  Their leader and exemplar and friend Jesus Christ had died and they thought he was gone forever.  They were walking to a town called Emmaus when a stranger came up to them and they conversed and walked together.  The stranger asked what troubled them and they told them all about the horrific death of their beloved Jesus.  The stranger quoted scripture and told them to not worry, that Jesus Christ would rise again.  That stranger was Jesus Christ, but as it says in Luke 24:16 "But their eyes were holden that they should not know him".  Painting by Liz Lemon Swindle Here these two downtrodden, and sorrowful men were mourning the loss of Jesus and that whole time they were walking and talking with the Savior himself, but their eyes were "holden" so they didn't recognize Him.   I have had my own sort of road to Emmaus, one that lasted for 3 years, where I felt alone, scared, bl