I was thinking about this with Jesus this morning.
I want to be like this in my relationships.
You know?
Open
Trusting
No defense
Because that’s how I roll
Not because the world is perfectly safe
That’s how I can be impregnable, unassailable, undefeated.
Hmmm…good point.
Father, help me to focus on You. I don’t understand why things don’t work sometimes.
Why have I been sick for seven-ish years? You could heal me in a snap. I’ve certainly asked You often enough.
I remember that all You said was: getting sick IS your healing. (However that works ~ but You have NO trouble getting Your point across, do You.)
I trust You.
I love 💘 You Jesus.
You are the most amazing beautiful wise humble Person
I’ve ever met
and I am smitten.
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Jesus help me to be tough and hard to kill. Hardy.
Resilient.
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“Most of us spend so much time hating things about ourselves that we don’t realize we’re crippling our ability to love others.
There’s no way you can figure out how to love somebody else well in a relationship if you have not first figured out how to love yourself. ” ~pastor Michael Todd
I definitely had an aha moment.
with Jesus.
this morning.
because of this.
the reason ~ well one reason ~ I have so much trouble loving my neighbor is because I don’t like myself.
However…I am getting better!
it has been extremely difficult for me to forgive myself for some of my parenting mistakes.
Like I said: I’m working on it with Jesus and I have definitely found that,
as I’m learning to forgive myself.
and love myself.
and give myself a break,
and move on….
I am becoming a better parent and friend and wife and child.
I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he shows us his mercy.
Psalms 123:1-2 NIVUK
As Christians, we need to encourage one another to live by godly standards and resist the pull of the world. ~ Mama Joyce
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive,” C.S. Lewis wrote.
” I think Peter would have agreed. He knew pontificating about forgiveness was a whole lot easier than practicing it.
“It’s the doing that gets tough.
“But it’s the doing that should characterize the child of God.
To return evil for good is devilish,
and to return good for good is human.
But to return good for evil is Godlike.”
– -YouVersion devo
