Good Morning and A Request

Good Morning!  I'm still pregnant!  :)  In fact, the baby is moving all around.  Crazy baby...

I come to you this morning with a request, and it will probably sound odd, but just go with me, okay?  :)

I need to ask you all to stop saying anything like, "You're handling this so well."  I know that might sound weird, but it would really help me.  I struggle with being prideful.  Not really in the sense that I feel better than other people.  Even though I do struggle with arrogance at times, this is not one of those times.  However, I tend to feel very prideful in the sense that I can handle anything all by myself.   Or prideful in the sense that I'm responsible for whatever I'm doing/feeling.  Like, right now, it would be really easy for me to say, "Oh yes...I'm doing such a great job.  I'm just handing it all over to God and handling it so well."  Some of that is true...I really am handing it all to Him.

However, this peace that you see in me or read in my words, this joy, this hope, this assurance...

It has absolutely nothing to do with me.  I could not do anything to cultivate this feeling in myself.  It is all, 100%, purely God doing His work in me.  When I hear praise for me, Satan really gets in there and tries to convince me that I'm some super-Christian.  I'm not.  I'm really not.  Any of you could do exactly this.  I'm sure of it.  I know how much of this is purely God (i.e. ALL OF IT), and I know that He's willing to reveal Himself in anyone who makes himself or herself available. 

So, anyway, I just wanted to make sure that I attributed glory to the right person, and I wanted to ask you all to do the same.  God is being incredibly faithful to give me peace and assurance in this situation.  It's all Him, not me.  

In a couple of months, when you see me start to get prideful for having made it through this situation, you have full rights to direct me back to this post.  Okay?  :)