Be, Embrace, Share
Once again I have been stymied in the posting picture department...
I want to share some thoughts from a comment that a friend of mind posted yesterday.
She commented about "Being oneself, Embracing oneself and then Sharing oneself."
I love those words, but more so, I love the concept of living them. Isn't that really what God has in mind? That we are created as unique individuals to fellowship with Him and serve others; we all have a purpose in this life. I believe that purpose involves sharing ourselves, the ultimate expression of community. But I also believe we share ourselves best when we share within our areas of giftedness and passion.
And that is where in my mind it ties together, but also gets messed up...the embracing oneself piece. How many of us really embrace ourselves and appreciate that we are created in the image of God, and that He loves us just the way we are? I know I had a hard time with that for a long time. Yes, really.
So to be able to really abandon the notion of "what will other people think?" if the motives are pure and the action doesn't hurt anyone is pretty cool.
What are your passions? Are you living them? Do you embrace them? Do you share them? Take a step in that direction next and see what delights follow.
Connie and I have been sharing lots of smiles with our crazy glasses...
I want to share some thoughts from a comment that a friend of mind posted yesterday.
She commented about "Being oneself, Embracing oneself and then Sharing oneself."
I love those words, but more so, I love the concept of living them. Isn't that really what God has in mind? That we are created as unique individuals to fellowship with Him and serve others; we all have a purpose in this life. I believe that purpose involves sharing ourselves, the ultimate expression of community. But I also believe we share ourselves best when we share within our areas of giftedness and passion.
And that is where in my mind it ties together, but also gets messed up...the embracing oneself piece. How many of us really embrace ourselves and appreciate that we are created in the image of God, and that He loves us just the way we are? I know I had a hard time with that for a long time. Yes, really.
So to be able to really abandon the notion of "what will other people think?" if the motives are pure and the action doesn't hurt anyone is pretty cool.
What are your passions? Are you living them? Do you embrace them? Do you share them? Take a step in that direction next and see what delights follow.
Connie and I have been sharing lots of smiles with our crazy glasses...
Labels: being oneself, Embracing life, sharing life
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1 Comments:
My son is thrilled about making his flower boxes, but most of all he wants to fill them with flowers and sell them. We went to several places trying to sell them, or sell them on consignment, but we mostly got polite "no"s. Fortunately we live on a fairly busy street (for a town of 4000) and we plan to hang them off the front pasture fence for advertising... I"m hoping God blesses him in this...but he's learning lots, including patience and presentation....and lots about growing things.
One of the best ways we can share is to share our passions with kids. Kids soooo need good role models and people to show them aspects of life they might not see from their focused little worlds of school and video games--But YES, share what you are wherever you can!!!
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