endure
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well i would like to say i have learned something in the last 24 hours that if i had known before, i would not have said some of things i did.
i learned that God doesnt ask us to give up EVERYTHING for the cause.
and what i mean is that he doesnt mind us simply taking time out to pleasure ourselves, and i didnt know that... i really didnt.
and i didnt know that it was a vital part of being healthy, mentally.
when the only thing you know is pain and sacrifice and forced neglect, its hard to love yourself. and when you cant hardly love yourself, its hard to be who God has called us to be.
if you we never take a rest so that we can relax and simply enjoy life and find pleasures, all we know is pain, sacrifice, neglect and suffering for a greater cause, and that seems noble.
but in the end, you lose touch with yourself, find no joy in life or in yourself and its hard to love yourself like you need to becuase all youve ever known was being forced to do things you didnt want to do and being pressed down.
we all know its easy to be really out going when we are in a really good mood and having lots of fun.
like, i thought God didnt want me to do anything pleasurable, just pray and read all day, but eventually it brought me to a place where i didnt know what simple pleasures were, and all i knew was neglect that i had put on myself, but all that neglect put me in pain, and all that for so long made me begin to think that was all i was worth, pain and suffering at other peoples expense.
so i was ashamed of myself, and didnt love myself.
but now, man... im going to take some time off to just enjoy life and experience pleasures, so i can please myself and enjoy life, and when i find myself happy and joyful, i discover myself and find what about me is worth being happy and confident over. that there is GOOD in me, and i need not to be ashamed of me, becuase me makes me happy.
i mean im still in to cause of Christ, but also my portion as solomon said in ecclesiastes 5.
and i need need both.
i learned that God doesnt ask us to give up EVERYTHING for the cause.
and what i mean is that he doesnt mind us simply taking time out to pleasure ourselves, and i didnt know that... i really didnt.
and i didnt know that it was a vital part of being healthy, mentally.
when the only thing you know is pain and sacrifice and forced neglect, its hard to love yourself. and when you cant hardly love yourself, its hard to be who God has called us to be.
if you we never take a rest so that we can relax and simply enjoy life and find pleasures, all we know is pain, sacrifice, neglect and suffering for a greater cause, and that seems noble.
but in the end, you lose touch with yourself, find no joy in life or in yourself and its hard to love yourself like you need to becuase all youve ever known was being forced to do things you didnt want to do and being pressed down.
we all know its easy to be really out going when we are in a really good mood and having lots of fun.
like, i thought God didnt want me to do anything pleasurable, just pray and read all day, but eventually it brought me to a place where i didnt know what simple pleasures were, and all i knew was neglect that i had put on myself, but all that neglect put me in pain, and all that for so long made me begin to think that was all i was worth, pain and suffering at other peoples expense.
so i was ashamed of myself, and didnt love myself.
but now, man... im going to take some time off to just enjoy life and experience pleasures, so i can please myself and enjoy life, and when i find myself happy and joyful, i discover myself and find what about me is worth being happy and confident over. that there is GOOD in me, and i need not to be ashamed of me, becuase me makes me happy.
i mean im still in to cause of Christ, but also my portion as solomon said in ecclesiastes 5.
and i need need both.
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