When I see this meme it always makes me laugh...
It reminds me of something my mom would always say to me!!! Whenever she would tell me to do something and I didn't want to do it OR I was doing it but only half-heartedly, resulting in a SLOP JOB, my mom would say to me, "Don't be FAT AND LAZY!!!" I would always just kinda be like, Okaaaaaaayyyy...liiiiike kinda puzzled...buuuuuut OKAAAAAY MOM!!!
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Well one day she says this to me and I look her, then kinda slowly I'm like, buuuuuuut MOM, I'm ALREADY FAT!!! Without missing a beat and very matter of factly, she was like, WEEEEEEEEEEELLL, then DON'T BE LAZY!!! I was like, OH OK!!!
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It all clicked for me, I already had ONE STRUGGLE, she didn't want me to add another to my list and be LAZY too!!! It may seem like she was being harsh with me to say something like that, buuuuut I know she was only trying to help me with a fault I had a tendency towards, LAZINESS!!! To this day, when I'm not wanting to do something or not putting my heart into, it I'll say to myself, Come on Mary, do a good job, DON'T BE FAT AND LAZY!!! "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might..." (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
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Sometimes when we have faults, we tend to say, WELL, this is JUST ME!!! Like it or lump it!!! Buuuuuut, the other day I was talking to one of my friends and I was telling them about how I was superrrrrrr nervous about doing something and they were like just be YOURSELF don't OVERTHINK IT, just go and BE YOU!!! I was like, yeah buuuuuuuuut, part of BEING ME, IS OVERTHING STUFF!!! They laughed and then were like, well that is true, so let me rephrase that, go and BE THE BEST YOU!!! .
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I actually read the other day an article about the top personality types to have a tendency towards being overweight!!! Would you be shocked if I told you all that my personality type ENFP was top on that list??? WELL IT WAS!!! Buuuuuut even tho my personality type is prone to struggle with this, I can't just excuse it, I have to WORK on OVERCOMING MY STRUGGLE!!! My personality type has a TENENCY towards certain struggles, buuuuut by the grace of God, I will strive to overcome my struggles...til I reach heaven!!!
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Even though we all have tendencies towards certain faults, depending on our personality type, that doesn't mean that, that is THE WAY we are SUPPOSED TO BE!!! We may have struggles, because of WHO WE ARE, BUUUUUUT GOD has given us the power to overcome our faults
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Soooooooooooo my friends, PICK A STRUGGLE and instead of just struggling with it, PICK A STRUGGLE AND WORK ON IT!!!
"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Cor 15:57)♥Mary Frances :)