Unapologetically and Honestly Loving Others with Reckless Abandon

I know that it is really hard at times to hear things about you that you don't like and already know. I know that when someone points out the hard things in us we have two choices. We can get bitter and not allow some of those changes to make us better. OR we can take what they say, separate it out and allow only the things that will make us better, make their way into our hearts and soul. Recently this happened to me and I have been struggling with how to decipher between what is truth and what isn't. I am a firm believer that God has a plan in EVERYTHING and that He allows us to be hurt so that He can make us into who HE designed for us. I believe that he ALLOWS those things to make us more like Him. We have to allow that change to happen though. We can resist but that just makes it harder. I know for me I don't want to miss ANY opportunities for Christ's Love to flow from me. Now that isn't to say I haven't done that, but I don't want to EVER choose that ...

I know that it has been awhile and so I thought I would give some time to sharing with you what has been going on with me and how things are changing in me. I am relearning to live as ME. I have always been that way to an extent and I have always tried to not allow things others say dictate my choices, especially the older that I get and I work at not allowing them to make me try and have to be anyone other than EXACTLY who God made me to be. But lately it has been brought out to my attention that I have been trying to be someone that others have convinced me for years I HAVE to be. That simply isn’t true. All I can do is be true to who I am and who God has made me to be. I have to be honest with myself and allow God to direct me. The other day my dad was talking about how we make plans and they don’t seem to go the same way that we had planned. I know that something we KNOW what we are to do and yet our plans don’t seem to work. But it is only when we truly let go of what we want that...