A very popular pop-psychology book written back in the late sixties was Thomas Harris' I'm OK - You're OK. There's been some suggested other titles such as, "I'm Not OK and You're No OK but That's OK," and not surprising in our culture a more sarcastic one, "I'm OK – You're an Idiot."
In Anthony De Mello's book, Awareness, he says, "People tell you, 'I think you're very charming,' so I feel OK.
I get a positive stroke [and that boosts my ego and I feel great for the moment]. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong.' I say, 'What can you expect of a donkey?'" (De Mello did use a different word for donkey.)
Now, before you write me off as rattling off in psychobabble, understand what Fr. De Mello was saying; that is, we need to get real and admit what we truly are. This is not a put-down in any way, but only as we see ourselves the same as God sees us are we free to change and become all that God envisioned for us to be. Actually, until we admit what we truly are and accept ourselves as we are—warts and all—we are not free to change and grow because we just hide behind a false mask living in denial–a self-defeating and deadly way to live.
Remember that while God loves me as I am, he loves me too much to leave me as I am. He wants me to grow up into the fullness and become all that he envisioned for me to be.
Dear God...
please give me the courage ...
to see myself as you see me
– and accept myself as you accept me -
so I am free...
with your help...
to become ...
all that you planned for me to be...
Thank you for hearing and answering my prayerz...
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