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The Way I See … Asking for Help

By Beth On September 7, 2011 · 642 CommentsThe+Way+I+See+...+Asking+for+Help2011-09-07+15%3A55%3A10Beth · In Memes, The Way I See It Wednesday

Is asking for help hard for you? It is for me. Admitting I need help isn’t so bad … I am nowhere near omnipotent so the fact that I need help, on a pretty continual basis, is downright obvious! But my inclination is to think that you should notice my need and leap to my rescue! I don’t want to have to humble myself enough to ask for either a hand up … or a hand out! This weekend when I discovered that I could not afford to ship a promised care package to J and C (in Asia) I was devastated. I have been through a lot recently and that was just … almost … one blow more than I could take! Here I was, trying to do something good, for someone else, and I was being stopped. It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t right. I was upset. I was still stewing on it when I went to bed and as I laid there, trying to think of a way to make this work, [...]

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