Love Yourself

Hello wonderful Made to Crave sisters. I hope you are off to a great week. I was reminded today in my daily reading how in order to love others we must love ourselves first. This is such a critical point as we are on this healthier craving God journey together. If you do not love yourself send that prayer up to God and ask him for that, he would be honored to help you see how amazing you are and see yourself as he sees you.

I have a wonderful friend who is married to a dear friend of my husband’s from high school, she too is doing the same daily readings as I am and she will share insights as she has on them from time to time. I loved what she wrote to me last night:

“I was sitting on a plane waiting for it to take off for my weekly trip to Minneapolis. The sun hit my engagement ring as I was catching up on my bible reading. It scattered beautiful points of light all around me. I was fascinated by its wonder.

Then I looked down at what I was reading. Proverbs. I was honestly getting to a point where I was fatigued by the repeating guidelines. Yes I know I should not speak ill of others. Yes I know I should not be greedy. Yes I know that wisdom is better than riches. Do I really need to read this over and over again?

I thought about the beauty of the diamond and how the prism like qualities enabled its beauty. And how it is so strong that nothing can penetrate it. And then I thought about those Proverbs. And how God is trying to teach me that by following him and his guidelines I will become like a prism. Strong to outside interference and yet so beautiful when light shines through me. The light of Jesus Christ.”

Wasn’t that beautiful?! I had to share it. So as we get these guidelines in our reading of the bible, one of which is to love others as we LOVE ourselves, be reminded that we can all become like prisms shining Christ’s light to those around us.

God Bless,

Sabra