Unteach Me — An addition

On Monday’s post I shared my 2015 challenge.

The unteach me list is challenging but complete. At least I felt it was complete until Tuesday.

Tuesday was a bad day for me. You see, I have been battling some strange illness since mid-December. Every test has come back normal and scan has come back clear. I’m a medical mystery at this point. More tests are forthcoming and I am confident of God’s healing so please don’t be alarmed.

Back to my unteach me list.

The list was complete until Tuesday when I realized I needed help. Help letting go of life going as I had planned. Help allowing others to help me. Help asking others for help. In the mist of my own personal pity party I realized something else. My unteach me list wasn’t complete.

If I truly want God to shake away everything that is not supposed to be in me and consume me with all things that ought to be I have to be willing for my unteach me list to grow. Therefore, I am submitting to you that I have an open-ended unteach me list. Tuesday I added the following to the list:

Replace

Stubbornness with Submission

I am a stubborn person.  I am the all-sufficient-I-can-do-it-all-by-myself -but-I appreciate-the-offer woman. If I am really being be gut-honest here, there is probably a little pride tangled up in that hyphenated phrase. The submission I need to learn is not only to God but to the reality of my circumstances and acceptance that it’s OK to be helped.

I sure have a long way to go but I am so thankful that I have all the grace I need to get me there.

Unteach me Lord.