Me Time

     It seems fast food commercials are trying to make us selfish: "Have it your way.", "Be good to yourself.", and now "Me time".  I don't think this is a sentiment we need to encourage.  If your me is anything like my me, 70 percent of the time is "me time" and that is only because for the other 30 percent we are asleep.  That doesn't mean that I'm giving myself a treat (in this case, McDonald's iced coffee) on a minute by minute basis, but even when I am working or doing something for other people, I am still thinking about me.  This is not an anomaly, it is the normal human condition.  Ego centrism is present in newborns who may never in their lifetime learn the term.  It is a good thing for babies to know and communicate what they want or they wouldn't survive infancy.  The problem is we never really outgrow it.  Having commercials reminding us to be good to ourselves is about as necessary as having doctors remind us to breathe and swallow. 
     I'm not a total narcissist.  I work part time in home health as a caregiver--the real kind, not the marijuana kind.  I enjoy my job because I think old people are the bomb, but that doesn't mean there aren't some for whom I wish I had a bomb, including one I shop for voluntarily.  I enjoy sharing the hospitality of my home, especially the part where I get to feed people. Food is my love language.  If you eat my food, you are accepting my love.  I actually enjoy a pleasure more if I get to share it, especially with someone who might not have that opportunity otherwise.  My conscious intention is to use my resources, especially time, for Christ but my default drive is set to "me time".  So is yours.
     God has given us many good things to make our time on earth enjoyable and it would be foolish and ungrateful refuse his gifts.  So go ahead and give yourself that treat.  But let's be honest, it's always Me Time.