LOVE AND RESPECT YOURSELF
Today we read about a JAILER-
Who was going to kill himself=
Because he thought
All the prisoners had ESCAPED=
When the doors flew open
But Paul told him not to
“But Paul shouted out
IN a loud voice=
'Do NO HARM to yourself'” Acts 16:28
Paul's shout STOPS the man
From taking his own life=
And he and his family
ARE CONVERTED to the faith
Don't you think we ALL
Need to hear
Saint Paul's words today
We may NOT be killing ourselves=
But we may be
DOING HARM to ourselves
In other ways
We need to LOVE OURSELVES=
We need to RESPECT ourselves too!
“The sun
Will not HARM you
By day=nor the moon
By night=he will watch
Over your life” Psalm 121:6
“Love does NO HARM
To a neighbor=therefore-
Love is the fulfillment
Of the law” Romans 13:10
And we should do
NO HARM to ourselves=
We can harm ourselves-
Without even trying
By not getting enough sleep=
By not eating right-
Or drinking too much
Or we can harm ourselves
By NOT PRAYING daily=
By not keeping God
And our family NUMBER ONE
In our lives
Sometimes we are
MORE considerate and gentle
With others=
And not with ourselves
And sometimes we WORRY too much-
Weigh ourselves down
With guilt
We have to love=
We have to be GOOD
To ourselves too
We need to LOVE
AND RESPECT OURSELVES TOO!
“Each of you
Must RESPECT your
Mother and father
And you must obey
My Sabbaths=I am
The Lord your God” Leviticus 19:3
“........so that
Your daily life
May win the RESPECT
Of outsiders
And so that you
Will not be
Dependent on anybody” 1 Thessalonians 4:12
There is an old saying
“CHARITY begins at home”
So START this day
By doing something GOOD
For yourself=
LOVE and RESPECT YOURSELF FIRST
Then you can=DO GOOD
For others all day long
REMEMBER what Paul
Said to the jailer
“DO NO HARM to yourself”
SO LOVE and RESPECT YOURSELF TODAY
In the names of Jesus=and our always LOVING HOLY FATHER!
Robert P. Wallman
5-09-2021
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Melannie Svoboda, S.N.D.
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