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So, I have been writing since I could hold a pencil or a crayon, I didn't always write in the correct places...my Golden Books, where I carefully spelled out my name perfectly, backwards.
I have written poems, essays, short stories, many, many letters, started novels (never to finish), articles (2 Got published), a melodrama, reports to parents, grant, sermons, and some prayers.
Even though I have no completed any of the budding novels, the hardest thing I try to write is prayers. I can't explain, really, I think my "relationship" with God is healthy, if not robust, and I have many words. Maybe it is because the prayers I usually write are not private. They are not just between God and I. They are designed to be shared, shared with many people, People who I do not know well. Some people whose names I do not know.
This is a little baffling, because I do not have any trouble speaking in public about multiple subjects Somehow, prayers are different. Perhaps because instead of being just for me and God they lay bare more of me. They tend to be pretty intense, and they are always heartfelt,
The on I need to write this week is bout Matthew 22:34-40 and the message, the command to Love Boldly,
God in Jesus told the people that loving God with their whole hearts, minds and souls, all the time was the most important law but that there was a second that was equally important: to love your neighbor as yourself. In my message I confessed that the difficulty I had with this particular law was that i don't always love myself, very much. i am full of doubt and fears that I don't "do" enough, that I don't risk enough, that i am not equal to the tasks set before me. I am anxious that my efforts, my intent are/is not even adequate,
I know, in my heart that God IS GOOD, that He DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES, that He loves me as I am, But, still I doubt, If I do not love myself enough, how am I able to love others in the way He wishes?

So, I guess my prayer to God for the people this week is this:

Heavenly Father, Teacher and Redeemer, help us to love ourselves as you would have us so that we can truly love our neighbors in the way you wish us to do. Guide us to understand that we do not need to be perfect, that we do not need to be more than you have intended us to be we just need to do the best we can in our human state to follow these two commands To love you with all our hearts, all our minds, and all our souls all the time, while we also love our neighbors as you would have us do, to love ourselves enough to share your love with any we encounter. We do love you God and we strive to be better, to act better, to speak better, and to love all of our neighbors, In the name of your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, amen.

Hoping this prayer and my meager efforts are pleasing in His sight and that I am capable of presenting this message efficiently and effectively.