It's your favorite sins that do you in....

Ripped open and exposed...... that is exactly how I felt when I realized that it wasn't the big things that I have to worry about its all those little bitty ones that I don't think matter.  Oh you know exactly what I'm talking about.  Maybe it's the snide comment that happens to fall from your lips that you can't take back or the extra food you allow yourself when you know you're full.  My favorite is self doubt or anger.  I spend so much time wrapped up in the things that orbit around me that I don't see how my actions may or may not affect those people around me.

Recently I sat and listened to someone say that mercy was about me and that forgiveness is about all of us.  Well with all due respect to that person they are completely incorrect.  Mercy is a gift that is given to all of us by a selfless God because lets face it far to often humans are to selfish to be that selfless. See that is where the ability to curb our judgemental attitudes would come in handy.  Forgiveness now thats where i get to be selfish when someone hurts me.  Because my forgiveness is so I can move forward with my life, it doesn't take away what has happened or make it better it just allows me to keep my walk on track.  Yep there is another sin that as a human is so very easy to hang onto.... the infamous grudge.  It's so easy just to say you hurt me or you cannot be trusted so I am NEVER going to let you or myself forget it.  See that is where it gets tricky.... because you don't know that person fully or the baggage that they are carrying.

WOmen sometimes are the worst at feeling guilty.  What if we work to much will we miss out on the milestones of our children.  We get so caught up in our "over inflated" expectations of being super woman that we lose sight of what's important.

What about expecting perfection out of a flawed person.... aren't you just setting that person up for failure.  That can cause the domino's to fall and then the cycle begins again.

I for one choose to jump off the hampster wheel and begin new making amends when I notice what I am doing wrong or have done wrong.  What you choose to do is up to you.

Ask yourself this week:

1) What intentional or unintentional sins have you committed?
2) Are you giving those over to God daily?
3) Is God bigger than all of this?  (Yes, but sometimes I have sticky fingers)