It's in moments with rude self-absorbed people that I realize I have still have a ways to go in this journey of being transformed and set free, so that when I find myself engaged with such people I can remain loving instead of turning into a rude person myself, giving back to them what they are giving out. And then I'm left asking myself this question...How often do I still get caught up in my own self absorbed moments? Still more often than will happen in the day when LOVE and GRACE capture more of my heart and mind than they have at this moment.
I want to be kind and loving and gracious to rude and self absorbed people, because it is love and grace they themselves don't understand and need help in understanding. Grace really is like a beautiful song being sung in the midst of a rude world that knows nothing else...and has no hope of knowing anything else as long as it remains in it's self-absorbed blindness. And that grace song is the power that can untangle our own self absorbed mess along with the self-centered existence of others.
Go, shout it out, rise up
Oh, ohhh
Escape yourself, and gravity
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now
Oh, ohhh
Force quit and move to trash
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Yeah. I got bible slapped the other day and burst into tears, and it wasn't even that bad.
I have trouble living with self-centred people too - me!!!
But you're right about horrid people that are the true determinants of how far along you are. You can feel that urge to defend yourself rising up, hmmm :) Still, we live and we learn from these things when we fall down.
I love this pic. Loves it
Sue, believe it or not, it's still members of my family that push my "I hate your rudeness" bottons more so than people out in public. And I do think it is because I invest so much into their lives...so their actions then have much more of an ability to hurt me.
But the beneficial ways of responding have been narrowed down for me. I did a few years ago hear our loving Father's suggestion that I cease to speak so that I might hear what he was trying to tell me. The reward punishment paradigm has been stripped bare and exposed as being an enemy of harmony in relationships and I am left with love and grace being the only thing that can change the game in the way the game is in need of being changed.
I'm just left very aware of the reality that he has so much more work to do in me and well as those around me.
Aww, dang, Kent. We're on the same page here, except that I'm not even so far as to say that I WANT to love those kind of people. Please know that that comes, however, from a lifetime of being CONTROLLED by a narcissistic (self-absorbed) parent. I've still got lots of work left in this area!!
Did U see my recent post? : http://spiritunleashed.blogspot.com/2009/03/worst-kind-of-inflation.html
It's pretty short and to the point. And, unfortunately, I don't speak as one who is entirely free from it myself... perhaps I was speaking mostly to myself there!
Just because you've used the specific term here, I'll bring up the title of a book I've partially read that was recommended to me years ago by a counselor I was seeing at the time. It was truly enlightening, and I probably would do well to take another look at it. It's called, "Children of the Self-Absorbed".
AMAZING the long-lasting repercussions that come from such - like I said... I've still got lots of freedom to be had in this area... on both sides of the issue!
Thanks for your post!!
Free Spirit, self inflation is a pretty serious one.
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