First Love Yourself  

Obviously, FIRST FIRST love The Lord your God with ALL your heart strength mind body soul life resources…all of you! 

Then after you’ve done that, love your neighbor AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF.  

In other words, you will only be able to love others to the degree that you love yourself and that’s banking on the fact that even before that you love God with all of who you are.  

You want your relationships in tact? You want to be able to be at peace with that person you are at odds with?

 You want to be at peace with YOU?  

Here is the recipe——-Love God with all your heart and THEN F.L.Y. !

First love yourself and THEN love others the way you have gotten good at loving YOU!  

Loving YOU looks like this: 

Self Care ~  

Light a candle…..If you’ve got a long paper to write or tons of paperwork for the job you are currently working on, take five extra seconds to light a candle and make it a little bit more pleasant for yourself.  

Floss your teeth and not just only brush them

Take a bubble bath 🛀

Get your nails done

Go for that massage you keep meaning to do

Go to the beach or nearby lake or pool for the day with your favorite book.

Block out time to sharpen the saw. It’s actually going to help you be a better steward of time the other six days of the week. It’s not lazy or wasteful. Actually you will be better for them AFTER you have loved YOU!

So go ahead and F.L.Y.

 What is keeping us from this? I’ll tell you what it is for me and chances are it’s the same thing for you.

Fearing God not man ~  

Years passed by with me making choice after choice sacrificing my true needs and the needs of my family for doing little things day to day trying to please others. I played the marterer in the dumbest of ways. What are some areas you are sacrificing unnecccessarily in ways you probably shoud enstate healthy boundaries so you can love yourself well? In what ways will this empower you to love others well?

I pray that this simple inventory will help you F.L.Y. like never before!

 Happy Monday!