And the chatting begins…..

As Jon began to write, I began to think more and more about how I (and almost every girl I know), loves to chat.  Chatting doesn’t always have to be in person either…we chat using text messaging, myspace, email and various other technical avenues.  I thought it might be nice that we open this blog to relevate’s girls (and guys if interested) as well as anyone who just wants to chat…I will try to be as entertaining and intelligent as my husband but in time we will see how it all turns out.

My first subject, if you could call it that is respect.  Yes, I said it R-E-S-P-E-C-T (oh and I just sang it-you can too, you know you want to).  I don’t know why I have been thinking about that word a lot lately but I have, so I just thought I would share my thoughts and then hopefully you will share yours!

I have to respect so many people; God, my husband, my son, my parents, my employer, my teachers (when I was in school), my pastor, my government, my friends…the list goes on and on.  Not only do I have to respect each one but I have to do it forever.  I have to be honest, sometimes this is hard. I mean I don’t always feel like respecting each of these people ALL the time, but God asks me to.  Each of these are hard on different levels because we come in contact with them either daily, weekly, yearly etc. No matter what the situation, we need to be lights to each of these people with the amount of respect (and love) we show them.

The first word I think of behind respect is honor. You can gain honor through showing others you are worthy of it (Proverbs 11:16) and give others affiliated with you a good name by being a respectable person (Proverbs 31).

Don’t forget, you also have to respect yourself.  Most of the time people think of themselves first, but sometimes, if you are like me, “yourself” can get left out of the list of people that needs respect.  I need to respect myself enough to see the great gifts God has given me and allow Him to use me.  If I am just throwing myself a pity party on how I am not able etc God will just move on to someone else, and I missed it.  Now, don’t over do it and move into pride but realize that God WANTS to use you and WANTS to be a part of your life.  When you do this, you may see the need to stop cutting, disrespecting your body, get out of an abusive relationship…whatever the case may be.

Anyways, what do you all think about respect??

Because of Jesus,

Sarah