I read this verse today for the millionth time- love your neighbor as yourself.

Pretty simple memorization,right?

We normally translate this or interpret this to say “do unto others as you want done to you“…

Makes sense.

BUT,

here is a different perspective…or angle to view it from.

How can we love others as we love ourselves if we don’t love ourselves???

Joyce Meyer asked the question- what are your thoughts about yourself? Can you really love others with something you don’t have??

Interesting.

I have been feeling exhausted lately.

Worn out.

Dragged down.

Empty.

I thought it was the weather…x 4 gloomy days in a row in Michigan is not fun folks!

However, whatever the reason behind my fatigue, it affects my mood and thought processes.

The “blues” affect what I think about me.

I tend to feel the usual: not good enough, not capable, alone, barely tolerated by those around me, judged, not liked, rushed…

Let’s just say my value meter tends to plummet.

If this is how “I love myself” how on earth can I love someone else with more than that?!

Yet, I am called to love…to be an encourager…to shine a light…to be a light…while my light is feeling wimpy or snuffed out.

I can’t give what I don’t have.

So,maybe, in those moments, hours, days, weeks…as I try to invest into the lives of others to love them I need to let the Lord lavish His love on me more first….

Filling my tank as it empties.

If I want to assure someone they matter, they have value, they mean something to me and to to this world then I best spend time with the source who tells me the same thing.

Just thinking aloud this morning😊