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Akira329:
A friend of mine sent this to me:

Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

It got me wondering what it really means to love myself.
I see all the scriptures pertaining to loving your neighbor as you love yourself.
So how do I love myself??
Are such sayings like this even scriptural??
I'm a sinner, a beast, the son of perdition, yet carnal, my heart seeks evil daily, I'm pretty disgusted with myself.
How do I love a man like this??

Antaiwan

OBrenda:
Antaiwan

(I'm a sinner, a beast, the son of perdition, yet carnal, my heart seeks evil daily, I'm pretty disgusted with myself. How do I love a man like this??)

My Sweet Brother the "Beast" is not who you really are in the spirit.  But a part of our earthly humanity, and a royal pain in the ?ss. Certainly not worthy of your Love.  And everybody who is fortunate to be aware of him...struggles and fights him just like you.

God teaches us to understand ourselves as a new creature...as a Tree with many branches, or one body with many parts.  I think we are to Love Not our individual self, but our collective selves! (Body of Christ)
If we see with eyes that see ourselves as part of the Body of Christ are we not becoming Love?

Maybe the question is not should I Love myself,....But am I becoming Love?

Hope this doesn't sound like I'm a Daisy Throwing Fruit Cake!
 ;D

joyful1:
Antiawan--
Be patient with the destruction and remaking of who you are, that your God knows how to perform....perfectly! I am not the same person that I was 20 years ago, 20 weeks ago, 20 minutes ago....neither are you....we are in the midst of change. I believe that you will love who you will become....because we WILL be like Him!
Love,
Joyce :)

EKnight:
Once I learned that God purposed everything I have done, I loved myself.  I felt better about myself knowing that God is working out his great plan and we are ALL a part of it.  That notion also helps me to love my neighbor.  Just as it has been said that God said ,after creation, (including evil), that it was "good", all of us are created perfect for our purpose.  What's not to love about that?  :)

Eileen

Chris R:
Gods purpose for Evil is for our ultimate good, However Evil is still evil....

Peace

Chris R

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