I've been pondering this recently. Which phrase better describes me?
I want to be needed.
I need to be wanted.
Ok, so as with (I suspect) all humans, there's a bit of both in me, but which one actually applies more? And when I've figured it out, is that the one I want to apply more, or would I rather it was the other one?
Maybe they're too different to be compared (but they sound so similar...) but hey.
What do you think?
30 years on, YLT still cut the mustard
6 years ago
I think I need to be wanted.
ReplyDeleteIf I am needed it implies I am needed perhaps for what I do, for a skill I have and though I like being needed I would rather be wanted, just for being me. Wanting seems somehow all encompassing and I'm glad God wants us and though He doesn't need us still let's us offer what we have.
good answer Trees. i go with wot she sed.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess I agree, but I don't think I was really thinking about the God dimension when I was thinking about this. I was just thinking about people. (Shocking, I know)
ReplyDeleteI guess in terms of being needed, I guess I was thinking relationally - I like the thought that I might be needed, that is, not that my skills might be needed, or my wit (as if!) or my knowledge, but ME.
Maybe that's really bad. I guess part of it is that there aren't as many people that rely on me in my current role as did in my previous one... And I miss that.
As Steve Curtis Chapman said (or sung, actually),
"You, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time"
Maybe not as many people, but perhaps the most important ones x
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