AA

I need to go to AA meetings....

not the AA you're thinking, the AA i'm referring to is Approval Addiction. I am addicted to gaining the approval of others...

Through a series of unfortunate events, this has become glaringly obvious to me this past week. I had the real epiphany on Tuesday night, and felt at a complete loss. I don't know how one goes about caring more about what God thinks than what everyone else thinks. I prayed that night that something would happen or come along that would help me....

On my way to work on Wednesday, my answer came sooner than I expected. I was flipping from 104.7 and 89.3 *my adult radio choices* and I switched to 101.5. I normally don't listen to WORD FM unless it's the weekend when they play music. The show that day was entitled "Are you a People Pleaser?"--needless to say, I was riveted! I could not stop smiling because it was like God's little greeting card for my day. I caught the tail end of the broadcast and caught the web address for the author of the book "Pleasing People". I went online and took this quiz-which confirmed that things are actually worse than I thought....

I scored almost the lowest score possible. So now what? I am doing a study on people pleasing/AA, and I know God is doing a work in my life and in my heart. The bible says that we should not be concerned about what men think of us, but what God thinks. I am thankful that I was shown this flaw in myself and that God is showing me ways to overcome it. Hopefully i'll do that in less than 12 steps...