sooo, this last week has been a killer for me…for some reason God has been showing me over and over and over and over again, areas that need work…and in each of those situations there has been a common root to the problem…selfishness!!! literally every morning in my prayer time there is another area that just pops in my head…maybe a situation i was facing or something that i had been thinking about…selfishness…every where i turn…selfishness…
for instance…molly has learned a new phrase that she says quite frequently…”no molly’s”…when i say quite frequently, i mean ALL THE TIME…and then yesterday we went to a “luncheon”…it was a part of domestic violence awareness and there were different agencies in town that deal with this on a daily basis…each person was given a small card with a “bill of rights”…it listed out rights that each person has…and number two on the list was…”you have the right to think of yourself first”…the opposite of what God has been telling me over and over again…not exactly what His word says either…
then this morning i’m reading through this book…great book…number 12 on the top 100 list of best selling books on amazon this week…it was in the top five when it first came out…and here’s what it said…
“There are two main reasons why people are rude: ignorance and selfishness. Neither, of course, is a good thing. A child is born ignorant of etiquette, needing lots of help and training. Adults, however, display their ignorance at another level. You know the rules, but you can be blind to how you break them or be too self-centered to care. In fact, you may not realize how unpleasant you can be to live with…
If you’re thinking that your spouse-not you-is the one who needs work in this area, you’re likely suffering from a bad case of ignorance, with a secondary condition of selfishness…” (pages 22-23)
i mean seriously…it’s everywhere i turn…
so my focus right now is on how i can serve those around me…how i can get my mind off of myself and on the needs of those around me…it’s not easy…it’s not real fun…but it’s definitely something that i need to do…i’m starting with the simple things…things that are so easily overlooked at times…
selfish…me…come on!?!
yup!!!
