The Oxygen Mask Lesson

If this happens, place the mask over your nose and mouth, and adjust it as necessary. Be sure to adjust your own mask before helping others. ~ Preflight instructions

I can’t take care of you
when I haven’t taken care of myself.
I cannot raise a confident child
when self-assured is a foreign concept.
I cannot take the speck from your eye
when the beam remains in mine.
Even the role of wife and mother,
one that seems created to serve others,
bears out the lesson. Meet your own needs first
so you have the ability to meet
for others.

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