Self…. ish. Seeing finally.
You need to love yourself. Stop listening otherwise.
I’ve been taught in many ways that any attempt to focus on “me” was wrong, sinful, selfish, and bad.
I call BS.
I think it’s time that everyone takes inventory, not based on what your culture has dictated, but on who you are.
I have lived my entire life without free intuition. (Yeah, yeah, don’t trust the heart… )
Instead, my fuel has been fear.
Perfect love casts out fear. If I can’t see this, I am still blind no matter what I know. I can see now. Better than ever.
What do you know? If you don’t love yourself, you can’t see the love of God either. And you can’t love others.
I choose life. Life chose me. I’m alive and I know why.
If this named something
you have been carrying —
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Philippians 2:1-2, “1 Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, 2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.”
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