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Mother’s day is about receiving.
It has come and gone, Mother’s day.
What a phenomenon to once a year encourage the world to express gratitude en masse to mum.
I am so grateful that these days I am not one to miss an opportunity so I boldly ordered a champagne breakfast on Mother’s day. Although John and I don’t have children together I do motherly things such as keeping the cat fed and flea free. Reason enough to expect and accept gratitude and to totally indulge in the feeling of being loved.
Although I don’t think I can handle a champagne breakfast every Sunday, being treated as special on Mother’s day was fantastic and I thoroughly lapped it up.
However there have been other times when I found it hard to be the center of the attention and I didn’t know how to graciously deal with all that love so openly coming my way.
On the whole I wasn’t a great receiver in my younger days.
I rather gave than received.
Over the years I started to notice though how annoying it was when somebody refused to accept.
It took a bit longer for me to realise that I was no fun myself when I made it hard for people to give me something.
I don’t know what it was that made it so hard for me to accept help, attention or just kind words. I usually brushed it off with a stupid remark and I had no idea what I did to the other person. However I am sure it didn’t make them feel good.
As I said it took me a while to see how unkind not receiving actually is.
I am pleased I am over it.
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Yeah ! Not receiving is hardest for me to accept when I am being so sure that what I give is worthwhile.
However, I do have to recognise (often!) that my gifts may not be all that appropriate to acknowledge at the very moment or even perhaps the way such is offered…
U 2 both make the old girl begin to think..! Best of everything with your marathons, because they make hard to see things appear more confrontable…
Bestest ! Beth.
Thanks so much Wilma for opening my eyes. I am really bad at recieveing and would much prefer to give. In fact my husband does get annoyed with me and sometimes doesn’t even bother to offer now. I can now see why. I am going to make sure I observe myself closely and practise my receiveing.
Yeah Beth, ramming so called good things/gifts down people throats is not a good look. Neither people look good; nor the person who it is happening to and neither the person who is doing the ramming.
Offering a gift without attachment or expecting a return… difficult. I start to see how God must feel….. frustrated to say the least. However he doesn’t have to knock our heads together , we do that ourselves very well…..
Haha Amanda, I can see you having trouble with receiving. Cool that you realised that though, but now you have a task on your hands to get him back into the habit of giving again.