Over-Sensitivity--what it really is

A short post, as I need to go grocery shopping...my favorite day of the week!

A while ago, I wrote a post about sensitivity. I wish to retract what I said. I was going to delete the post but decided to keep it up, because there is some truth to what I said. But recently, I had a very good confession with a priest where I received a lot of insight about sensitivity.

I do struggle with it but I learned more that what I struggle with is not so much sensitivity but too much self-love, and the sensitivity is merely a symptom of that. I won't really get into much more--I do have to go--but wanted to at least bring this perspective about since I went and wrote that post....

It has been amazing what has changed inside of me since that day. It was sort of a hard thing to see about myself--not hard to believe, but hard to take. I remember the tears kept falling and they wouldn't stop, but they were a healing sort of tears, not the painful kind. Afterwards, it just seemed like everything was different both on the inside and the outside. I felt an inner strength that I didn't feel before and I still do. I don't get into arguments with Dennis as much anymore, I don't feel on the defensive as much as I used to...not that these things have totally faded away; there are still struggles but not as many. More like God has given me a "leg up" and I have to climb the rest of the way but I'm much farther than what I used to be.

So in a way of rewriting that post, I will say that we should continue to work on sensitivity for others, but for ourselves, to think of it as a symptom of self-love. I don't mean we should be hard on ourselves, since things that we are especially touchy about could be a wound from the past. But that we should ask for healing for those wounds. That is what I experienced that day in confession.

Must go now, it's supposed to snow soon! Let's pray that with all these catastrophes that are happening around the world, that people will call out to God for help. It does no good to suffer for no good reason, we might as well get something from it.