"Love your neighbor"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The other post at the top right now touches on my problem.

Here's a post:
I think the best thing for you would be to focus on helping others. You may think you are living in a shit storm, but a few nights working in the NICU, a homeless shelter or helping out in a women's home for domestic abuse victims might give you some perspective. Then you could go to sleep grateful for what you have, instead of thinking that you deserve better.

It's not the perspective part that bothers me, but the fact that I can't love people enough to do things like this for them. I believe the best way to teach people about Christ is to show them love, and....I just can't.

Maybe that's a little clearer.

Maybe that's because your focus right now is appropriately not on "teaching people about Christ" but on improving your own life, which you've noticed Christ does not seem to be helping with

It's obvious that OP's not talking about proselytizing. Go away.

[Anonymous]

Is it really up to you to teach people about Christ? Is it really up to you to be some selfless saint? Why not be a funny approachable person who sees the good and the humor in herself and in other people? Why not have fun? I don't want to be "taught", I want to see someone who is happy and hilarious and wonder what their secret is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The other post at the top right now touches on my problem.

Here's a post:
I think the best thing for you would be to focus on helping others. You may think you are living in a shit storm, but a few nights working in the NICU, a homeless shelter or helping out in a women's home for domestic abuse victims might give you some perspective. Then you could go to sleep grateful for what you have, instead of thinking that you deserve better.

It's not the perspective part that bothers me, but the fact that I can't love people enough to do things like this for them. I believe the best way to teach people about Christ is to show them love, and....I just can't.

Maybe that's a little clearer.

Then this speaks to some level of depression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The other post at the top right now touches on my problem.

Here's a post:
I think the best thing for you would be to focus on helping others. You may think you are living in a shit storm, but a few nights working in the NICU, a homeless shelter or helping out in a women's home for domestic abuse victims might give you some perspective. Then you could go to sleep grateful for what you have, instead of thinking that you deserve better.

It's not the perspective part that bothers me, but the fact that I can't love people enough to do things like this for them. I believe the best way to teach people about Christ is to show them love, and....I just can't.

Maybe that's a little clearer.

Then this speaks to some level of depression.

I guess everyone missed the part where I'm in counseling.