Self-licking Ice Cream Cone
A self-licking ice cream cone is
a self-perpetuating system that has no purpose other than to sustain
itself. Applied
to one person it would be, "Its all about me!"
Parkinson's is sneaky. I slowly start feeling "off" (meds
not working). I don't really realize it
is happening until. I find I am getting grumpy, cranky, grouchy, curmudgeonly,
and downright snarky. Other times it is because I have become a self-licking
ice cream cone. I am focused on me. I
suffer from i-me-itis. When this happens, Dickens lets me know by saying,
"I'm leaving," or my wife tells me outright that I am getting grumpy.
When I have become a self-licking
ice cream cone and everything is about me, I am miserable. I need to repent of
my actions and change my thinking. I find if I do something for somebody else,
my attitude changes! When I stop and think on God, my whole demeanor changes.
My self-licking ice cream cone melts down! Oh sure, sometimes it is because I
don't feel physically well. Then I
simply need enough common sense to stop and rest. Still, I need to refocus on
God.
I pray for God to help me recognize
early when I am feeling "off" and also to realize that it's not
self-esteem, its God esteem.
"For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing,
he deceiveth himself." Galatians
6:3.
© copyright Kevin T Boekhoff
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