Just Me.

Sunday morning.
Time to put on your best clothes.
Style your hair.  Get all made up.
Let's go to church and get real with God.

Rewind 10 hours.  After a productive Saturday at home, I found myself in track pants and a hoodie.  Hair in a pony tail and {gasp} no makeup on.  We needed a few things from Wegmans, so I headed out.  You know what happened next...I saw everyone I know.

"Boy are they all gonna be surprised when they see me at church tomorrow," I thought.

Sometimes I approach my radio show like a Sunday morning.  I prep my content, I plan my breaks.  And everything is just perfect.  Other days, I can't pull it together and out comes the real me, pony tail and all.  When I get emails or calls from listeners, though, it's always the "track pants and hoodie" shows they comment on.

In those moments of being real, we connect one human soul to another.  We let a struggling mom know she doesn't have to have it all together.  We give a fallen saint encouragement to crawl to the cross...again.  And we say to every listener "I'm here, with you.  Just you.  Just me."

Wonder how many heads would turn if I wore my hoodie to church today.

Terese Main is a morning co-host at Family Life, a network of nearly 70 Christian radio stations across New York and Pennsylvania (www.fln.org).  She also provides imaging voicework for stations in Florida, California, Minnesota, Virginia and Wisconsin (www.themainvoice.com).