Tara & Joy Love to Ramble

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver

Friday, November 02, 2007

Self-centered.

Is there any point in the day that I acheive thinking of someone other than myself?

I used to think that I was extremely unselfish and not at all self-centered. I think I was wrong. and yet again, i am thinking only of me.

i wake up and think about what i want to do with my day, and how i can spend my time that will be most beneficial and enjoyable to me. And I become upset when I have to clean up after someone else or someone forgets to notice me or when someone doesn't listen to my thoughts and my complaints. I think only of how others affect me, not of the adverse affect I may have on them. Not of the blessings I could give them. Not of the burden I could lift from them.

I am self-centered.

God, please help me. You are the only one who can and the only one who loves me enough to stick it out. It is going to be a lengthy process and I am going to fail alot, but I thank you in advance for your forgiveness and your mercy and your grace. Thank you for your willingness and your love. Thank you for your love because without that I would not even be aware of my problems and of your abiblity. I love you because you first loved me. And you do not need me, but I am desprately begging for you and your help. Change me God. Make me who you see me to be, and give me the strength to work with you and not against you. To embrace you and the uncertainty because you are certain and that is enough. Let me know that is enough. Remind me that you are enough. You are more than sufficient, and I am nothing, but you love me and I am yours, so you have given me everything. I love you, and even though your love far surpasses that which I can offer you, I offer all that I have and I know that is all you require. I will daily die to myself and my selfish desires so that I may know true love and true joy. So that i may be who I was made to be. I love you with all that I can give, and I will try to give you more tomorrow because I know I am still holding back. Please forgive my inadequacies, and thank you for your son, your child, whom you selflessly released and who lovingly sacrificed all that he was, so that I may know you and know love.

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