The Thing Called Selves
C. S. Lewis – Mere Christianity
I admit that loving people who have nothing lovable about them is hard sometimes. But then, has oneself anything lovable about it? You love it simply because it is yourself. God intends us to love all selves in the same way and for the same reason: but He has given us the sum ready worked out in our own case to show us how it works. We have then to go on and apply the rule to all the other selves. Perhaps it makes it easier if we remember that that is how He loves us. Not for any nice, attractive qualities we think we have, but just because we are the things called selves. For really there is nothing else in us to love: creatures like us who actually find hatred such a pleasure that to give it up is like giving up beer or tobacco……
Love is doing what is right for our loved ones, that includes ourselves. What is RIGHT for me? Healing would be one thing.
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