This is a portion of Tyler Perry's newest message that I thought was awesome and worth sharing:
... I decided to do some traveling and since I still have 20 more pounds to lose before I start my next movie, ALEX CROSS, I thought I would go to the Grand Canyon and do some hiking, climbing and so on. At one point in the climbing, I was over a steep drop and was tied to a safety rope, while a buddy’s safety rope was tied to me. It was my responsibility to help him up, since I was bigger and weighed more. I told him, “I’ll hold on to you to help you up but if you start to pull me over with you, I’m going to untie this rope.” We had a good laugh about it, but I was serious… :-)
I started thinking about that moment a few days ago. How many times are we tied to a person, people or things that are pulling us down and we won’t untie the rope? For whatever reason, be it family, friends, society, or just the feeling of being obligated, trapped or that if you don’t, no one else will. I have watched so many people go over a cliff with a person that they are trying to help up, it’s sad. YOU MUST UNTIE THE ROPE!!!
This is your life and you are wasting it being tied to someone who is destroying his or her opportunities and yours. If the person that you are trying to help does not know that they are worth being saved, how do you expect them to put any value on you saving them? You’re not worth it to them. They can’t get it! SO YOU NEED TO! Listen to me, untie the rope and don’t lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who can’t survive on your level. You hear me? Maybe they have gone as high as they can go. Just because you can survive on that level doesn’t mean that everyone else can. Stop trying to help them, UNTIE THE ROPE! I know you may feel this is cruel, but what is more cruel is dying a death that’s not your own. Letting your destiny go to hell because someone else pulled you there. Are you kidding me? That isn’t God!
It is so important for us to not allow people and things to tie us down.
In 2001 I was diagnosed with HIV which I contracted from my ex-husband who knowingly infected me. In 2004,I turned all of my cares and burdens over to the Lord and that is when I felt in my spirit "I WILL LIVE AND NOT DIE".
Oh God, girl, that message is GREAT! As a woman, I know that we are helpmates. Many of the businesses that are started are in reference to helping someone, usually unselfishly. For many of us, we attach ourselves to what looks good on the outside. Note to self, that attachment is unattachable when necessary. Thanx much for the message. MUAH!
ReplyDeleteAwesome my sister you are so right!! Thank you for your comment!
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