All I Need Is Jesus and a Good Pair of Jeans: The Tired Supergirl's Search for Grace by Aughtmon Susanna Foth

Author:Aughtmon, Susanna Foth [Aughtmon, Susanna Foth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I AM SELFISH

I am saying it loud and clear, people. I am selfish. While I would like to deny it, it is the truth. I am a self pleaser. Now, I’m not saying it proudly. That would be like saying with great jubilation, “I have corns.”

That just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Corns are no good. Just the fact that they are located on your feet and are called “corns” makes me feel a little nauseous. Things named after vegetables and one’s feet should not be allowed to mingle. The same could be said about selfishness and the tired supergirl. Selfish is the very last thing on earth I wish to be. Or at least it is the very last thing on earth I want others to think about me. I want to be seen as generous, loving, and hospitable. I definitely don’t want to be viewed as selfish. Self-ish. Consumed with one’s self. Loving one’s self over all others. Taking care of one’s person before casting a thought toward anyone else. And yet, that is what I do most days. Think a whole lot about myself. In fact, this whole book is about myself. See how very selfish I am? So very full of myself. It’s sickening, I know. Every day when I get up, I think about myself. What should I wear? What should I eat? What should I do? How can I get through my to-do list? Do you see it? Me? Myself? I? A whole lot of thinking being done about myself.

Now mind you, being a mother, I don’t get to be as selfish as I want. I have to start thinking about the boys almost as soon as my eyes open. What will they wear? What will they eat? How can I get Jack to stop wiping syrup on his pants before he goes to school? As a parent, I am forced to be unselfish. But it’s not because I awaken with thoughts of how I long to care to the best of my ability for those small humans God has entrusted to me. The whole unselfish thing goes against my nature. Selfishness comes so easily to me. I would much rather sit down for a cup of coffee than whip up little boys’ breakfasts and comb down cowlicky hair and change diapers. I can’t lie. I do like the good-morning kisses. But then again, we are back to thinking about my own likes and dislikes. So those kisses fit in quite nicely with my selfish self. Kisses for me. Coffee for me. Time for me. Oh, how I love me.

Selfishness is the Achilles’ heel of tired supergirls everywhere. We just can’t stop thinking about ourselves. The world does tend to revolve around ourselves. We view everything through a me-colored lens. How will this affect me? Need I remind you, this is the very type of thinking that got Eve in heaps of trouble? Here she was in a garden of perfection, her

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