PICK ME!!! PICK ME!!! Giveaway
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If you found your way here by reading my Encouragement for Today devotion, welcome! The rest of you can click here to read it. Be sure to come back!
Yes, you are loved. Just. The. Way. You. Are.
Could you relate to wanting to be chosen? Were there times in your past you too sat with fingers crossed hoping to be picked?
We all thought that if only they’d “Pick me!” then all would be right in the world.
We were wrong.
Even those times when we are chosen, we still might struggle with doubt and wonder. Even rejection from others who were not picked.
In my devotion I used the true examples of wanting to be picked for the team, on the homecoming court in high school and to become engaged at college. Those were all times of pain and longing for me.
But pssssst! You want to know a secret? Just getting all of those things doesn’t make a girl happy and complete.
I know.
Later, I would be chosen for a team. The dance team in college. Even picked as captain.
And I would wear the queen’s crown, not of my high school but of my Midwestern Christan college.
And the ring? I finally got the ring at nabbed a husband three weeks after college ended. And ya know what?
All three of those occurrences were laced with some sorrow. And rejection. And “I wish I’d never gotten this” feelings.
Yes, I was picked for the dance team. But, I was also told by the coach that I needed to lose 10 pounds if I was to stay on the squad. I had three weeks to do it.
Yes, I wore the crown. But some of my friendships were never quite the same afterwards. I would have rather kept the friendships.
Yes, I married my college sweetheart. But it hasn’t always been a walk in the park. It too came with a host of struggle and conflict and tears. Oh and a boatload of in-laws. :-) (nuf said!)
And NONE of those things I so desired and final acquired has made me feel secure and loved. Only letting Jesus into my life did that.
Do you know Him? I don’t mean know about Him, but really have a relationship with Him? If not, find out how here.
My prayer is that today you will remember that you are loved and wanted by the God of the universe.
And you are wanted here too! One of you who comments will win the giveaway shown above. It includes:
~ Some P.S. I Love You lotion
~ A bag of Godiva dark chocolate covered almonds
~ A set of note cards
~ A travel mug with a little mirror on it. (So it shows you who God loves–YOU!)
To be entered, leave us a comment with a time when you also secretly whispered, “Pick me! Pick me!”. Then, type “I am Chosen”.
Winner announced Thursday.
This devo. was so for me. I could have exactly been in your shoes. I have a memory of 4th grade playing kickball and being the “last” one picked and struggled for years to get healing from the pain of “not being picked” but a few years ago during a ministry time, I was asked to close my eyes and ask God to tell me what He had to say about that painful time, and guess what He said!……..I’D PICK YOU! Finally I received my healing. So, thank you again and I am chosen! :))
I struggle everyday with Pick Me Pick Me with groups of ladies at our church as I long for a close godly friend to share my struggles. I know that I am chosen by God as he whispers to me that He’s all that I need.
My child hood and my adult life it has been pick me pick me for a true friend. That could understand me and love me for who I am not what they could get from me!! but now I know that I am chosen….
I want to finish this degree before I turn totally gray!…I am chosen!
All my life I wanted a family, a real one, not the broken kind I came from. I wanted a man to love that love me, too. Children we loved that loved us. I had that for a while. My husband and I have been seperated for three years. If you are reading this and you have a minute to pray for our family, there aren’t words to thank you.
I am chosen.
Dear Karen,
I really related to your devotion today, because both my 17-year-old daughter and I experienced the “last-one-picked-for-the-team” situation. Thank God He chose us.
All my life as a child I was chubby, and not althletic, I tired out for every sport, and no one would give me a chance- I wanted them to give me a chance, pick me. As a young adult I wanted to belong with the in crowd, I wanted them to pick me. In my career as an adult when up for promation, I wanted them to pick me, I was qualifies, I put in the time, worked late, worked hard, they promoted someone else. I wanted them to pick me. Thankfully my time came with patience, little did I know that, “I am Chosen”.
Thank Lord for choosing us! I am sooooo chosen.
I am chosen.
Wanting a date for homecoming. I am chosen
Thank God that we each and every one have been chosen!
There were many moments in my youth that I wished I had been choosen…chosen as first chair in the clarinet section of the band…chosen to be a runner on the track team…but as I have grown I am learning that I was chosen all along by Jesus! That is the best way to be chosen. So I am now chosen…Be blessed because you are chosen by the King….
Smiles & Blessings, Robin :)
I am chosen !!
Growing up, I wasn’t popular or athletic or beautiful. I guess that we all have those ‘pick me’ moments. That’s okay…because I am chosen!
I wanted people to accept me for who I am and not for what they wanted me to be so they could pick me for “whatever that reason” that they thought would get me into their inner circle!!!
I AM CHOSEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve had those “Pick Me!” feelings my whole life – and even being happily married with 3 amazing children and a decent number of like-minded friends doesn’t change the fact that I still feel that way at times. Far too often in fact. Like when a group of us are hanging out and I realize that I haven’t gotten invited over to so-and-so’s new house yet. “Pick me!” Or even when my husband chooses quiet time by the computer instead of quiet time by me. “Pick me!”. But…I AM chosen. Thanks Karen!
There were several times in my life where there was a guy I was interested in and really want him to “pick me”. I so glad God had a better plan for my life. I have now been married for 12 years and couldn’t ask for a better mate.
I have been chosen!!!!
So many times in my life I prayed “pick me”. And many times I was happy afterwards that i wasn’t picked. Pick me, Pick me.
I Am Chosen.
I always wanted the popular girls to talk to me and also the teachers, but I was terribly shy. I still to this day find myself wanting people to ” pick me”, but I often do not know how to express what I am feeling. On the bright side I know God loves me and I am chosen!
I think that so often. Thank you for your timely thoughts. I needed to be reminded today that I am chosen.
The schoolyard.
I Am Chosen!
I was so shy in high school that I could never speak up and let anyone know that I was even interested in being chosen. That didn’t stop my heart from saying, “Pick me!” when I wanted to be on the quiz bowl team, to be picked as the student of the month, or to be a member of the girls’ ensemble. After high school, I learned that “everyone” thought I was stuck up because I never talked. If I had learned to speak up, I probably would have been chosen for those things that I wanted. I know that I would have had more friends because I have them now.
I am Chosen.
I was always shy and content. The one who chose me is still by my side after 53 yrs.
PTL for also chosing me.
I am such a people pleaser and have always wanted nothing more than to be “chosen.” It wasn’t too terribly long ago that I realized that I am already chosen and loved. I take great comfort in knowing that!
Oh wow! I remember my childhood and youth for such a phrase as this “Pick Me”. I was never in the popular crowd and was always a little chubby. It can really play on your self-esteem and confidence. I remember twice where i was traded off for the popular crowd. Had a good friend that was “MY” friend when I was a tween (i think tween) and then she became “HER” friend. It really hurt me and my friend assured me that we were still friends – but we were never close again. Then I had another friend in high school that was once again “MY” friend. After the summer and school was back she sold out to the popular crowd again. Hmph! And of course there was my ex-boyfriend that cheated on me with someone else and I was soooo silly to take him back after. Thank you Jesus that that is all said and done. He’s the great healer of broken hearts and low confidence eh (that’s the Canadian in me-hehehe). Many blessings Karen.