One of the biggest mistakes I continue to make as a writer (and in life) is to think “It’s all about me.” The books are not all about me. This work is not all about me. My life is not all about me (seriously).
Today, I was reminded of this again when I came upon this quote in the book, “Live a Praying Life” by Jennifer Kennedy Dean:
One night I bowed my head in silent prayer before a sermon and whispered to God, “O God, help me.” Very quickly came back the reply: “I will do something better; I will use you.”
That amendment was decidedly better. I was asking God to help me–I was the center; I was calling to God for my own purposes. But “I will use you” meant I was not the center; something beyond me was the center and I was only the instrument of that purpose beyond myself. God’s answer shifted the whole center of gravity of the prayer.
–E. Stanley Jones, Abundant Living
So that is my prayer today … “Lord, use me.”
Won’t you pray the same?
Wow. I needed that. Thanks Tricia.
Awesome. I needed this, too.