People Need to be Real
High is, perhaps, the last time in our lives when we are truly real. Like the Velveteen Rabbit, however, our goal in life is to become real, to be loved into life, to embrace what is truly our own. In high school we see people as they really are. High school is that heightened sense of ourselves.
Thereafter, in many ways, we begin to wear a veneer that is meant to cover our flaws, paste together our personalities, and hide our idiosyncrasies from the disapproving crowd that offers security, job, acceptance, and pay.
But in high school we are real.
What would life be like, how would it be different . . . for any of us, if we could live as real people? God offers us this . . . an acceptance like no other. This is, in fact, one of the key points of the gospel . . . that God accepts the realities we live with, the realities we are. We need to be real. The world has enough fakes and phonies. There is too much pretense, too little praise. Too many calluses, not enough celebration.
Perhaps that is why "Get Real" has always been one of the most common HS phrases.
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