“I just need some ‘me time’… I need to focus on me for a while and make sure my needs are being met… I need to spend some time finding myself.”

This type of language is very common in our society... As Christians, we cannot allow ourselves to start thinking this way.  Our concern should be finding God, not finding ourselves.  If we want to follow Christ, we are called to “deny self” take up our cross and follow Him (Matt 16:24).  That is where our focus should be...

“I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not in himself, nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps” (Jer 10:23).

We are simply not capable of navigating our own way through life.  God is the potter, we are the clay, and we desperately need Him to mold us...