It's All About You

"Everything isn't about you"...

This is a phrase that my husband has said to me many times. I find it difficult to understand him saying it to me because I consider myself one of the most unselfish people on Earth. I usually think of myself last in my everyday life. My children's needs, my husband's, my ministry, my job... I put everything else before the needs of my own. Nothing in my life seems to be about me...
And that's the problem.
My husband was correct to an extent. EVERYTHING isn't about me. 
But some things should be about me. 
You have to take time for yourself when you are a wife. Most times, being a wife is just another extension of who you are. Its an addition. You were you when you were born; that was automatic. But soon after birth, immediately actually, you became someone's daughter, and maybe someone's sister. Shortly after you are someone's cousin, niece, neighbor, friend, student.. And the extensions just keep on coming. Eventually you became a wife to your husband and that split some of you again. When does it end? you have so many other people pulling you in different directions, different tasks to complete, different places to be, different people to take care of. 
At some point you have to stop the world around you and take some time to take are of you. You have to be you no matter what is going on around you. Your husband and your family needs you, yes. But if you are no in the best health and state of mind that you can be in, will you really be any good to anyone?

3 John 1:2

  "Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well." (NIV)

Our Heavenly Father doesn't just care about us when we are in church or doing ministry. He cares about every part of us. We can't do what He has purposed for our lives if we aren't taking care of ourselves. We have to be in our best minds, bodies, souls and spirits in order to be the best wives that we can be. 

So no, everything is not about me. But sometimes, things need to be....