Me:  Don’t fall in Prodigal!  You might get green all over you.

Prodigal:  It would be better than if I belly flopped into a pile of manure.

Me:  I am sure it would smell better too.

Prodigal:  That I agree with, but don’t worry, I am paying attention so I don’t take the wrong step.

 

This is from the book Parenting From Surviving to Thriving by Charles Swindoll

 

People with a poor self-image fail to set healthy boundaries, which leads them to accept abuse.  They can also allow themselves to be stretched and pulled and pushed and overextended by people who have no intention to abuse them.  But with such an overwhelming need for approval, people with no regard for self assume that acceptance means never saying no.

 

Jesus said no to the Pharisee’s

Jesus said no to Satan

Jesus said no to removing Paul’s thorn

 

Why do we think as Christians we cannot say no?  Why do you think you cannot say no?

 

Matthew 9:13

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice:  For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org