Dedicated to all those who accept us just as we are:
There is this story by Anthony de Mello I like it very much for its simplicity.
I was a neurotic for years. Anxious, depressed,
selfish. And everyone kept telling me to chance.
And I resented them, and agreed with them, and
wanted the change, but simple couldn't. No matter how I tried.
What hurt the most was that, like the others,
My closest friend kept urging me to change.
So, I fell powerless trapped.
One day he said: "Don't change, I love you as you are"
These words were music to my ears: "Don't change. Don't change. Don't change....
I love you as you are"
I relaxed, I come alive. And suddenly, I changed!
Now I know that I couldn't really change till I found
someone to love me whether I changed or not.
I this how you love me, God?
