When I was going to start writing today, I was going to talk about the homily I listened to from this past weekend. We were talking about the Holy Trinity. Pentecost is now over, as is the celebration of the Holy Spirit coming down to the followers of Jesus Christ after he has been sent into Heaven. In the homily, Fr. told us something to the affect of not looking back, but looking forward. God has a plan for us all, and we just need to let go. I remember thinking of how much that reminded me of rain.
And yet, when I sat down to start typing, I have Gilmore Girls on in the background, and Lorelai is telling Luke how she has few people she can always rely on. Her daughter, her best friend, and Luke. The mixture of what I was going to write about and what I'm thinking about right now have now come together in my head. We all have at least one person we can always rely on. It can be a spouse, a boyfriend/girlfriend, a best friend, family, God, but the one person I feel most of us leave out is ourself. At least for me, I know I can always rely on my family and a few of my friends, the Lord always, but I never think about relying on myself. When I think about the future, I see myself with at least one other person at all times that I can rely on. I know of one person I know I can count on here on Earth outside of my family that will always be with me. There's a reason we decided senior year of high school that we would have a weekly/monthly dinner with one another as one of our teachers always has with her best friend. This girl has been there through thick and thin and there is no way I can live my life without her.
God will never give anything we cannot handle. He sends people into our lives that can help us through whatever situation is at hand. These relationships make us stronger, and the uphill battles is what makes the relationships stronger. And with everyone, he has sent us someone, besides His son, that He knows can help us throughout every situation, and that's us. Me. We always look for someone else to help, but always blame ourselves first. We see our every flaw (especially the ones that don't even exist), and refuse to see and trust in ourselves as we do others.
God made us all in His image because he knows what we will and will not be able to handle. He knows we are stronger than we think we are, but we refuse to see it ourselves. We need to see ourselves as God sees us. We all have weaknesses, and those weaknesses are the reason God sends others to help us. However, with every weakness is an even stronger strength, and we need to start looking at those and believing in ourselves as God believes in us. After God we need to rely on ourselves second--know God always has a plan, and we need to embrace the many gifts He has blessed us with.
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