“I am needy.”
We don’t like that statement much, do we?
It is fine and dandy to be needy when we are young. In fact, we expect it from babies, toddlers, and young children. But somewhere along the line, it becomes less and less “ok” to show our struggles. Just when does that happen?
As adults, we are expected to function perfectly all the time. At work, we are asked to perform and produce, working well overtime to “get the job done right.” At home we must cook, clean, and maintain the home while educating and entertaining the family. And then, even when we are with ourselves and notice we are down, we so often tell ourselves to “shape up,” “buck up,” or “just get over it.”
But some things you can’t just “get over.” When someone dies, when you lose your job, when a loved one makes choices that hurt, when the news wears you down, when you’re in the fourth month of a pandemic with cases on the rise… And then there are our everyday needs: food, sleep, shelter, companionship, and stability.
The fact is, there are things in life that we need. We are needy. Not necessarily clingy, incapable, lazy, or entitled, but we are in need of the grace, peace, love, and rest of God.
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