More Shellfish? Yes please! Less Selfish? Please, God!

I am so sick of selfishness!! Lately, everywhere I see problems, hear of problems or have problems I have just been seeing theroot of selfishness; this huge, tangled, nasty mass of self-centered feelings leading into self-centered attitudes, producing self-centered behaviors.

Every morning I read Our Daily Bread. Today's tag line is The more we serve Christ, the less we will serve self.   So as Christians, shouldn't we be Christ-centered rather than self-centered? Or at the very least, at least sometimes act like we are not selfish little brats?

Sometimes I just want to tell people to (or yell at them to) stop acting like 3 year-olds who think the world revolves around them but lately I just want to encourage them to take a step back and look at what's happening and to listen to what they are saying. I would love to share some of things I have heard others saying that I want to challenge but there are some great examples that I can use that I don't need to ask permission for, namely, and unfornutately, my own.

Example:  "My husband didn't bring me a present. He knows my love language is gifts and he brought our daughters something. Where's my gift?" This is an actual thought that I caught myself having recently. I am so glad that I caught it before I acted out in selfishness. 

I have been working very hard on fighting selfishness in my own life in the last couple weeks especially. Right now it seems like the more I work on becoming Christ-centered, the more I am attacked by things that make me want to act on selfish thoughts but at the same time, working on focusing on Christ makes it easier and easier to catch myself at the feeling of selfishness and not get to the behavoir of it.

So here's my advice:

Having problems with marriage, friendships, children/motherhood, other family remationships?

 STOP BEING SO SELFISH! Get over yourself; it is not all about you!

Technical Difficulties and Sounds I Hear

I can blog again! For about a week (or however long it has been since my last post) I have not been able to sign into blogspot. For some reason that little bar along the top just would not appear and so I took a break from blogging even though I really wanted to do a couple posts over that time. I no longer remember what I was going post (other than Wee Bit Wednesday) though.

I'm sitting on my couch right now, ignoring the dishes that piled up over the weekend and the boxes on the floor waiting to be filled. I have a cup of Back Porch coffee beside me and I am listening, enjoying the sound of the birds chirping on my deck. I sit relaxing to the gentle clicking of the keyboard's keys. I smile as a sleep laugh and a soft sleep sigh in response come from the room my daughters share. It is a very peaceful morning here. I am truly hoping that the girls sleep for several more hours this morning since they came to youth group with us last night and didn't get to bed until shortly after 10. Normally they wake up around 7 - 7:30 so here's hoping! I went to bed around 12:30 and was up at 5:30 so hopefully I make it through today. It should be a busy day for me as I pack and do address change things so maybe that will keep me going through the day.

The Love of the Father

This morning I was thinking about how much I love my daughters, which made me think about love in other relationships. I've always thought I appreciated how much God loves me but being a parent has taught me much more about love than I even knew there was to learn. The love of a parent for her children is overwhelming. I know my parents love me and I know God loves me but until this morning I never really thought about how little my love for them must be when compared to how much they love me. I love my children more than I can express with words or even actions, even when they are driving me crazy, even when they alternate waking up all night and I don't get any sleep, even when they disobey, even when they push me away and walk/run to do something on their own. I love them in a way that they probably won't understand until they have kids of their own.
Being struck with this reminds me of two actions I need to take away with it. I need to make a point of spending more time with my heavenly Father and with my Dad and Mom; talk with them about life, hug them, talk about memories with them, thank them for the love they have taught me to have just by being such a great example of it. Secondly, I need to continue to love my daughters and teach them the love of God.

Wee Bit Wednesday(S)

{one} what profession have you always admired?Well, in the spirit of nurse week and because I have needed many nurses and have nurse friends, I do agree that nurses are AWESOME!On a lighter/less serious note: All the construction guys are to be admired. Especially this one drywaller I know when he wears the right shirts and jeans ;P
{two} what would the title of your memoir/biography be if it was written today?Another Housewife Writes her Story
{three} how far do you commute to work?I don't
{four} are your earlobes attached or detached?detached {five} do you eat the unpopped kernels of popcorn at the bottom of the bag?yup
{six} what is the strangest gift you’ve ever received?I have a 3 yr old daughter, so you can just imagine the strange gifts I've recieved but from an adult, I would have to say, an old hockey ball found on the side of the road with all the dirty parts cut off with a knife
{seven} what is one tv show that you wish hadn’t been cancelled?Corner Gas (although it wasn't really cancelled; it just came to an end)
{eight} what is something that you are saving money for right now?Vacation and down payment for a house
{nine} what hobby would you like to take up?Sewing
{ten} how many times a year do you get really dressed up?At least 5. More is better
And last week's (Since I only do this when Holly does ;)  )


{one} when was the last time you used a pay phone (if ever)?This is a long story. It was about a year and a bit ago. 
{two} did you ever fail a subject in school?I started to fail Chemistry 12 (due to sleeping in class) so I dropped out
{three} where do you go to get your favorite hamburger/cheeseburger?Jack's
{four} have you ever served jury duty?no.
{five} how old were you when you moved out of your parents’ house?20
{six} what is your favorite color to wear?Black, purple, emerald
{seven} do you have a pair of shoes that you wear all the time?Flip-flops or my Champion sneakers
{eight} do you enjoy talk radio?Sometimes
{nine} if you could turn one unhealthy food into a healthy one, what food would it be?Gooey Sweet Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies
{ten} who is the best speaker you’ve ever heard in person?Tony Campolo