I've just read Bo Sanchez' write up on "loving myself to the fullest, and letting and trusting God to love me"------[ ].....the whole article blew me away. I've tried accessing the link before but I've failed, but for one reason or another, I got in this time. It must have been the laptop, or the other sites that were opened that time.
I cried again on the story about that teacher who made her students list down all the good things about their classmates, and who have since then, kept the listings as personal mementos to remind them of the goodness in them. One of the students, now a soldier who recently died, kept his listing in his pocket wallet. One by one, all the other students who were around during the funeral admitted having kept and valued their mementos of those "good" listing. I've read similar concepts before...I've even heard Oprah Winfrey sermons about it from time to time, in various intonations, with complete visual effects, on her shows. She's even wrote down her preachings about these lessons on loving oneself, before anything good may ever happen.
Yes, I gotta love myself continuously. I gotta always forgive myself for all the mistakes I've made. I gotta give myself space to grow as the person God has been showing, directing me. I remember having told someone about it while we were covering something like an impending death of a dear, loved one who's now badly sick. I could not help but cry.
I gotta love myself more, unconditionally. I gotta set up boundaries, just as to keep away from those things, certain people who unknowingly drain away my abilities to love myself wholeheartedly. I gotta pray as well for St Judas Iscariot who failed to love himself fully, & forgive himself, and went on to commit suicide upon learning the gravity of having been the traitor that eventually led to having Jesus Christ wrongly judged and crucified, in the view of the powers that be in that tumultuous period in Christian history. Peter himself denied Jesus 3 times, and he almost never got over it. But he forgave himself, by the grace of God, and went on to spread the gospel, and even got to be considered as the 1st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. I gotta be able to experience all the time God's loving presence in me.
On the steps I've taken to make life at past age 40 more meaningful, purposeful. Occasional rants & raves, too. And I've since, then, discovered by being with many teams that I'm taking lead primarily to accomplish goals I've selfishly set for myself and which I constantly & creatively peddle to my teammates LOL
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