inspiration
Over the last 6 months, I keep having a strange experience. People tell me that I am inspiring them.
It's super weird to me because frankly, I can barely adult most days.
Like, I'm writing this at 1am when I have a very busy day tomorrow, from my bed, that I am currently sharing with a mound of clean laundry that I cannot seem to motivate myself to fold and put away (thank God I have no husband he would have to sleep on the couch) after taking some work home this evening, then watching an episode of the Spring Baking Championship at midnight (because my brain was still awake and heaven forbid I fall asleep reading one of the three books I am currently reading or perhaps my Bible or maybe do something productive like writing this blog)...Did you enjoy that endless sentence?
YUP, I'm a REALLLLLL inspiration here.
Now, before you all text me or send me messages to encourage me in some way because I am over here trashing myself, calm down. I have more to say.
What I have to say is this:
Darn RIGHT I'm an inspiration.
But you know what? So are you.
We all are!
How could we not be? We are made in the image of Jesus.
Maybe we don't always crush our goals or get the laundry folded, big whoop.
Maybe the scale was mean to us today or God forbid we broke our diet and ate that donut, so what.
Maybe we yelled at our kids, were sassy to our parents, were grumpy with our spouse or just retreated like a hermit because people are just too much some days, meh.
Guess what, tomorrow might be better or tomorrow might be 10 times worse. That's the beauty of this life. That's the amazing thing about humanity.
We are all really messy, yet God loves us and chooses not to leave us in our mess. Little by little day by day we get a little better.
It makes me think about Bob.
Ya know, "What about Bob?"
His therapist gave him some pretty solid advice before Bob drove him completely insane. It was this, "baby steps."
The thing that makes us each inspirational is not the giant leaps we take in our life, its the baby steps. Little steps of obedience that take us where we are heading. It's what gets us to our destination.
Maybe you failed at 50 things today, I probably did, but did you succeed at one? I bet you did!
For that, to me, you are an inspiration.
If you get up tomorrow (ok today), dust yourself off an try again...BAM, you're totally inspiring me right now!
You see, to me it seems bizarre every time someone says something like that to me but someone is always watching you and you NEVER can tell what the Lord will use to inspire them. That's right, this is not even ABOUT YOU. It's about Him.
I'm going to tell you to do something I am basically the worst at. When someone says you inspire them, SAY THANK YOU. It's really Jesus doing the inspiring, He just likes to use unlikely vessels.
Ya know, like a girl who occasionally shares her bed with a pile of clean laundry or talks the the food network because, I mean, OBVIOUSLY John couldn't go home just because he didn't reimagine the Maraschino cherries enough...that bread pudding was a revelation...Whoever that girl is...she sounds like a train wreck...or maybe, to someone, she is an inspiration.
You never can tell can you?
It's super weird to me because frankly, I can barely adult most days.
Like, I'm writing this at 1am when I have a very busy day tomorrow, from my bed, that I am currently sharing with a mound of clean laundry that I cannot seem to motivate myself to fold and put away (thank God I have no husband he would have to sleep on the couch) after taking some work home this evening, then watching an episode of the Spring Baking Championship at midnight (because my brain was still awake and heaven forbid I fall asleep reading one of the three books I am currently reading or perhaps my Bible or maybe do something productive like writing this blog)...Did you enjoy that endless sentence?
YUP, I'm a REALLLLLL inspiration here.
Now, before you all text me or send me messages to encourage me in some way because I am over here trashing myself, calm down. I have more to say.
What I have to say is this:
Darn RIGHT I'm an inspiration.
But you know what? So are you.
We all are!
How could we not be? We are made in the image of Jesus.
Maybe we don't always crush our goals or get the laundry folded, big whoop.
Maybe the scale was mean to us today or God forbid we broke our diet and ate that donut, so what.
Maybe we yelled at our kids, were sassy to our parents, were grumpy with our spouse or just retreated like a hermit because people are just too much some days, meh.
Guess what, tomorrow might be better or tomorrow might be 10 times worse. That's the beauty of this life. That's the amazing thing about humanity.
We are all really messy, yet God loves us and chooses not to leave us in our mess. Little by little day by day we get a little better.
It makes me think about Bob.
Ya know, "What about Bob?"
His therapist gave him some pretty solid advice before Bob drove him completely insane. It was this, "baby steps."
The thing that makes us each inspirational is not the giant leaps we take in our life, its the baby steps. Little steps of obedience that take us where we are heading. It's what gets us to our destination.
Maybe you failed at 50 things today, I probably did, but did you succeed at one? I bet you did!
For that, to me, you are an inspiration.
If you get up tomorrow (ok today), dust yourself off an try again...BAM, you're totally inspiring me right now!
You see, to me it seems bizarre every time someone says something like that to me but someone is always watching you and you NEVER can tell what the Lord will use to inspire them. That's right, this is not even ABOUT YOU. It's about Him.
I'm going to tell you to do something I am basically the worst at. When someone says you inspire them, SAY THANK YOU. It's really Jesus doing the inspiring, He just likes to use unlikely vessels.
Ya know, like a girl who occasionally shares her bed with a pile of clean laundry or talks the the food network because, I mean, OBVIOUSLY John couldn't go home just because he didn't reimagine the Maraschino cherries enough...that bread pudding was a revelation...Whoever that girl is...she sounds like a train wreck...or maybe, to someone, she is an inspiration.
You never can tell can you?
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