Read this and thought it was worth remembering. I have spent a great deal of my waking thoughts doing this very thing for myself...
"To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst - is, by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed."
-Frederick Buechner
How beautiful that there is one who would do the other thing for me!
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Man I read this when you first posted it and didn't quite understand it.. Just read it again. I think I am way too good at gritting my teeth..
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