Jumping Puddles Jen: Grace for Self

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Grace for Self

I love to listen to K-Love Christian Radio, 90.7 in Neosho, MO. Early in January, I heard Dr. Meier talking about loving self. Mark 12:31 tells me to ' love God with all that I am and love my neighbor as myself' - there is no commandment greater than these (paraphrase). How easy it is to love God, it is usually pretty easy to love those around me, but oh the struggle of loving self.

We all make mistakes. We are all imperfect.

Most of the time, I am quick to offer grace to those around me when they mess up; when they live imperfectly.

Most of the time, I am quick to offer condemnation to self when I mess up; when I live imperfectly.

How is your relationship with self?

I am determined to love me. I am worth the same grace and mercy I offer to others; the grace and mercy offered to me by God.

You are worth it, too.

2 comments:

Unknown said...: It is tough to love myself, though I am learning and it is hard because when you decide to love yourself you usually have demons to face. I am worth the fight!!!; February 3, 2011 at 2:47 PM
Jennifer Sheafer said...: Yes, you are worth the fight. To face the demons is the path to emotional health. I'm proud of you. Love you.; February 4, 2011 at 9:18 AM

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Quotes

Let's stop looking at life as if it is a problem to be solved and start experiencing it as a journey to be enjoyed. ~Dr. Paul Fitzgerald
It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. ~O.H. Mourer
God calls us out of the life we have known and calls us to a life we never imagined. ~Eriwn Raphael McManus
We were made for relationships with persons, not things. We were made to be spoken to by a loving Father who wants to sing the doxology every time He looks at us. But if we have not heard His words - within, where the child lives - we will choose stuff. ~Gerald Mann
God loves you. God accepts you. Are you ready to accept your acceptance and live in reconciliation with God? ~Brian McLaren
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ~W.E. Channing
I realize that I am the recipient of His amazing grace - and I want to extend it to whomever enters my life. ~Susanna Fitzgerald
We don't decide who we are. We discover who we are and decide what to do about it. ~Susanna Fitzgerald
O Holy One, I hear and say so many words, yet Yours is the Word I need. ~W. Paul Jones
If the gospel is about anything, it is about a God who meets us exactly where we are and not where we perceive we should be. ~Robert Farrar Capon
Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once. ~Lillian Dickson
To everyone, Jesus issues an invitation to abandon the story they will lose themselves in, and instead, to enter the story they will find themselves in. ~Brian McLaren
Sometimes you have to go through hell to get to heaven. ...the simplest form of resurrection is the power to get up, to stand up in the darkness, however weakly, and to move forward. ~Robert Corin Morris
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ~ Teilhard de. Chardin