SOLD OUT
Before you start reading this, I want you to slow down from all the busy stuff of the day. Let's get the static out of our life for just a few minutes. Now that you are relaxed and focused, I want to have a serious conversation with you.
When you are shopping for something that is expensive, most people will do a little research to make sure the price they pay is fair. No one wants to pay too much, yet we do want a great product with great service. Let's try hard for a few moments to place a price tag on you. I am not sure what an eye is worth, but I would be curious if anyone out there would sell theirs for say one million dollars. I doubt there would be any takers. How about a foot, surely it is worth a few thousand? Let's go a little smaller - how about a couple of fingers, would that be worth selling for a few hundred dollars?
The point is this, we are worth so much more than we think we are, but we often sell ourselves out dirt cheap. There isn't a person reading this that would sell a body part, yet we will sell out our friendships, our values, our hopes and dreams.
What is a friend worth to you? I bet if you think about it, your friendships also have a hidden price tag on them. For years everything is rocking along perfectly, then one day it happens; you get mad at your friend’s action and BAM it is over. That friendship had a price tag, didn't it? We do not allow margins of error for others, yet we expect there to be a huge margin of error for us. Don't believe me, well just think about some of your friendships that have gone down the tubes. I bet you will place all the blame on the other person.
Let’s go deeper now that I have your attention. What price do you put on your values, character, and morals? Go ahead and tell me that those things do not have a price - I say BULL, you are wrong. You would sell out in a heartbeat of the price was right. Once again, think back to the times when you made a decision based on pleasures and wants knowing full well it was not the right thing to do but you just couldn't pass it up. See my point? We are conditioned to sell. We were built to work out deals, it is who we are.
What about the biggest of all your hopes and dreams? At what price will you sell them out? The saddest thing about what I am writing is usually these two come with the cheapest price. As you sell out something else, the hopes and dreams get attached and before you know it you have nothing left except the shell of the person you once were and had the potential of becoming.
Now the good news. It doesn't have to end here. This is not the end of the book; heck, it isn't even the middle. Lets consider the years you sold yourself out a life boot camp in which you learned some intrinsically valuable lessons. You are no longer for sale, your worth is much too high. You now will place your hopes, dreams, values, friendships, etc in the not-for-sale category. You are truly worth so much more than you think you are. There is no way God would sell you out and now there is no way you will sell yourself out.
You are not a blue light special you are The Greatest Miracle in the World, so now treat yourself as though you believe it.
Peace hope and love
Dale
When you are shopping for something that is expensive, most people will do a little research to make sure the price they pay is fair. No one wants to pay too much, yet we do want a great product with great service. Let's try hard for a few moments to place a price tag on you. I am not sure what an eye is worth, but I would be curious if anyone out there would sell theirs for say one million dollars. I doubt there would be any takers. How about a foot, surely it is worth a few thousand? Let's go a little smaller - how about a couple of fingers, would that be worth selling for a few hundred dollars?
The point is this, we are worth so much more than we think we are, but we often sell ourselves out dirt cheap. There isn't a person reading this that would sell a body part, yet we will sell out our friendships, our values, our hopes and dreams.
What is a friend worth to you? I bet if you think about it, your friendships also have a hidden price tag on them. For years everything is rocking along perfectly, then one day it happens; you get mad at your friend’s action and BAM it is over. That friendship had a price tag, didn't it? We do not allow margins of error for others, yet we expect there to be a huge margin of error for us. Don't believe me, well just think about some of your friendships that have gone down the tubes. I bet you will place all the blame on the other person.
Let’s go deeper now that I have your attention. What price do you put on your values, character, and morals? Go ahead and tell me that those things do not have a price - I say BULL, you are wrong. You would sell out in a heartbeat of the price was right. Once again, think back to the times when you made a decision based on pleasures and wants knowing full well it was not the right thing to do but you just couldn't pass it up. See my point? We are conditioned to sell. We were built to work out deals, it is who we are.
What about the biggest of all your hopes and dreams? At what price will you sell them out? The saddest thing about what I am writing is usually these two come with the cheapest price. As you sell out something else, the hopes and dreams get attached and before you know it you have nothing left except the shell of the person you once were and had the potential of becoming.
Now the good news. It doesn't have to end here. This is not the end of the book; heck, it isn't even the middle. Lets consider the years you sold yourself out a life boot camp in which you learned some intrinsically valuable lessons. You are no longer for sale, your worth is much too high. You now will place your hopes, dreams, values, friendships, etc in the not-for-sale category. You are truly worth so much more than you think you are. There is no way God would sell you out and now there is no way you will sell yourself out.
You are not a blue light special you are The Greatest Miracle in the World, so now treat yourself as though you believe it.
Peace hope and love
Dale
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